Raw strings starting/ending with backtick (original) (raw)

Attila Kelemen attila.kelemen85 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 12:55:01 UTC 2018

Hi,

Reading the JEP on raw string literals, I saw no mentions of the case when a string starts (or ends) with backtick. I guessed, that maybe the compiler will close the literal when it finds more than half the number of backticks than the beginning (nothing implied this behaviour just tried it and I know that it might be very suprising in other cases). I have tried with the latest early access compiler and (not too suprisingly) it didn't behave this way and simply failed when starting the literal with a backtick.

My question is, of course: What is the strategy for this case? Or is it explicitly ignored as too much of an edge case (and left to the developer to deal with)?

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