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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: multi-line Strings
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:17:28 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:04:33 -0500, Eric Sosman wrote:


>      It's unfortunate that both Java and regex use \ so heavily,
> because it leads to a lot of escaping-of-escapes and harms readability. 
> But why should it be a given that Java's literals should be different to
> avoid conflict with regex syntax?  Why not change the regex syntax
> instead, and use, say, ~ for the role now taken by \?  It might improve
> regexes to the point where they're merely unreadable, instead of
> intolerable.  ;-)

I've always liked the Awk and Perl default convention of delimiting 
regexes with slashes: /regex/ - if their compilers can deal with this 
cleanly, the Java compiler could surely do the same.


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