could an alternative syntax for raw string literal be consid kotlinlang #language-proposals

could an alternative syntax for raw string literal...

poohbar

11/30/2017, 3:54 PM

could an alternative syntax for raw string literal be considered? this is ugly:

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str.replace(""""""", """\""""")

how about

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str.replace(`"`, `\"`)

benleggiero

12/10/2017, 1:08 AM

Why not

str.replace("\"", "\\\"")

? Also ugly, but... not as ugly