> I've spent a little more time gaining experience with Jim's proposal.
> But maybe that's just me?
to be asking is why?
back and figure it out.
> The only downside you mention is the puzzler you found.
No. The puzzler is evidence of a design flaw in the language feature.
> puzzlers of its own?
only to Oracle's proposal because of the lack of empty string support.
blast radius with my proposal because it cannot contain new lines.
> 1. The assumption that developers are unable to see double-backtick as anything other than an empty string is not valid.
about strings that any delimiter repeated twice is the empty string.
> 3. This "puzzler" isn't really a puzzler; it's just a speed bump on the way to learning the feature.
believe that is definitely the case here.
the colour of two small commas.
delimiter for multi-line raw strings anyway).
> 5. Any solution will introduce puzzlers: varargs(`Hello`, ````, ` World! `, ````);.