[djedr]

`raw` is more of a type annotation than operator. You can also impose an implicit interpretation of (some of) your data as raw, without a type annotation.

A (not necessarily the clearest; this is something I have to work on) description is here: https://www.tree-annotation.org/raw.html

To condense: If it's unbalanced you have to escape it with the grave accent `. Otherwise, if it's balanced, which is mostly the case, no problem.

Unbalanced brackets and consecutive grave accents (or a grave accent followed by a bracket) are the only things you need to escape in raw data.

For more discussion let's go to the other thread, not to hijack this one.