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On 12/10/2012 9:51 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote:

> IntelliJ IDEA actually has a way to open just the expression in its own
> edit window.


That is indeed a nifty feature.  However I believe in principle a 
programming language should be readable without something having to 
translate it for you.  Java regex fails that test often enough where I 
think a non-escaped string constant would be a benefit overall.