[GROOVY-3149] quotes that don't require escape of special characters

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.7, 1.6-beta-2
• Component/s: syntax
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: A
• Created: 14/Nov/08 15:24
• Updated: 02/Jul/11 06:42
• Resolved: 02/Jul/11 06:41

Description

Hallo

very useful would be to have quotes that don't require you to escape $ \ and other characters. Of course one needs to ensure the data doesn't contain quotes from the same type.

For example one can say:
def str = ''''<echo message="${hallo}"/>''''
println str;

And output be:
<echo message="${hallo}"/>

instead of no such property "hallo" for...

Another more useful example of such quotes usage is writing regular expressions. I have really hard time figuring out how to escape characters there!