[wangweij]

One benefit of multiline raw string is that you can directly copy/paste a block of characters between the program and its source. Unless there are very sophisticated IDE support this proposal does not work fine in this sense.

[__ryan__]

Ah, that's interesting. In general, yes my proposal does benefit from and assume some IDE/tooling support for quality of life.

Edit: To be specific, the IDE could handle formatting when pasting into a line beginning with """. Or offer a "paste as cool new multiline string syntax" feature.

[jcelerier]

... which text editor does not have multi-line block selection these days ?

[pjob]

The browser that I'm using to read this proposal, for one.