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On 12/10/2012 8:43 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> It could be added....
>
> But I would not consider it a high priority.
>
> It is most useful for demo code.
>
> For real code then large chunks of texts would usually
> be stored externally (file, DB etc.) not embedded into
> the code.

I agree.  I was going to suggest that bob use a resource, in fact, which 
is of course an external file.

<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/lang/resources.html#class>

I think what I'd like more than multi-line support is support for 
strings without escape sequences.  Like:

   String regex = """\s[0-9](\.|\*)[_a-zA-Z]\w""";

is a lot more readable than trying to mentally decode all of the double 
slashes that regex in Java frequently requires.

(That regex does nothing useful, btw;  it's just an example.)