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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by pdevr on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:26PM (#35014588)
Seriously, yes. Great thought process behind the design, marred by the good-for-nothing (subjective opinion) backslash.

If any of you design a language or a DSL, please, please - avoid the backslash - for the reasons stated above. Hard to type, introduces unseen problems, most will hate it. It (backslash) is unbecoming, of anything elegant.

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Re:JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Proposed to Target Ja... by SyrupThinker on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:45PM (#35014763)
But if you do follow that advice consider if it is worth just using a different escape character for all interpolations. That way could still make use of this very sensible syntax of reusing the escape for interpolation whilst avoiding the backslash issues.
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