I understand the idea of Java-the-language being rather hard to maintain in a backwards-compatible way. I understand the idea of JDK API, such as the collections, to be rather tough not to break. Yes. I don't understand why Java still doesn't have multiline string literals. How often do you write JDBC code (or whatever other … Continue reading Please, Java. Do Finally Support Multiline String Literals
Tag: Escaping
MySQL Bad Idea #573
This is MySQL's Bad Idea #573 (after #384, which I've blogged about before) I've just had a terrible experience with a bug report from the jOOQ User Group, related to escaping of backslashes in string literals in MySQL. First, I thought to myself, whatever. SQL doesn't escape backslashes. The only escape character within a string … Continue reading MySQL Bad Idea #573