Any interest in raw strings? (original) (raw)
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Tue Mar 24 16:43:46 PDT 2009
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Hi all,
I don't think I've seen a proposal for raw strings - string literals which ignore escape sequences - yet. Would there be enough interest to write this up as a proposal? The idea is stolen shamelessly from Python, where you can write a raw string as r"[\n\r\t]" and it's equivalent to the normal string "[\n\r\t]" (i.e. you don't need to double the backslash in a raw string, it's just treated like any other character). This is most useful when writing regular expressions; in fact, it may only be useful then. But for that one case it is extremely handy. Any opinions?
It was part of my enhanched string proposal http://redmine.gradsoft.ua/wiki/java7stringliterals
If creating new proposal only for unescaped strings (without multiline) can help (ask Darcy) -- than submit one. It woud be better than nothing.
Vil.
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