Generalized string literal syntax, 10 years later

In 2010 I wrote down my idea for generalized string literals.

A lot has changed in programming languages since then: Go, Kotlin, Rust, and Swift have become important and influential; C++ and Javascript have been significantly revamped. String literals in many languages are a lot more complicated than they were 10 years ago.

My design has evolved a little bit since my old description, and recently it has been agitating me for another write-up and a comparison with non-fantasy literal syntaxes.

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