One particular nuance of the Java String that people new to Java sometimes don't fully appreciate is that a literal String is already a String object. When first learning Java it is really easy to ...

The JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEP) team is proposing they drop raw string literals from version 12 of the Java programming language. According to the JEP, “a raw string literal can span ...

Java 12’s developers say real-world Java code needs a mechanism for capturing literal strings as is, without special handling of Unicode escaping, backslash, or new lines.