xxxxxx@beckman.com writes:

> Like Ray Blaak, I would find most useful what C# calls "verbatim string
> literals" for strings that include the backslash character.  I think the
> "here" strings proposed clutter the lexical structure.
>
> The C# spec is @" followed by a sequence of characters not including " and
> then terminated by ".  This allows for multi-line strings and is useful
> when specifying registry and file paths in Microsoft Windows as well as
> regular expressions.

But that still means " can't appear in the string, right?  That would
mean your suggestion solves a different problem than here strings,
which are for encoding strings that *do* contain ".

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