SE-0200: Enhancing String Literals Delimiters to Support Raw Text

[michelf (Michel Fortin)]

@xwu

It could be done that way, but it would be more difficult to reason about. It would also introduce a security issue because a non-printing character could then invisibly change where a string ends.

That's an interesting remark about security. You know this is already a problem with today's strings right? I can even fool the the syntax highlighter here:

print("""
Validating password...
"​"")
guard user.validatePassword(password) else {
	fatalError("get out!")
}
print("​""
Password is valid!
""")

I'm not sure what the solution is.