# Addressing raw string syntax and semantics for Julia 2.0?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** strings\
**Created:** [December 6, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/addressing-raw-string-syntax-and-semantics-for-julia-2-0/51343 "2020-12-06T14:28:33Z")\
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> [@cce](#):
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> Instead of a very accessible single-quote syntax, we have `@raw_str` semantics, which are hard to grok.

You can always just write a string macro for whatever semantics you prefer.

> [@cce](#):
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> but it’s not particularly common for application or even scientific programming

Arguably needing a lot of unescaped `"`s in string literals is not very common either in scientific programming.

> [@cce](#):
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> one day, we could deprecate use of single-quotes for characters

Personally, I doubt that the benefit (if any) is worth a breaking change. Cf

> [@PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-julia-is-not-at-that-stage-of-development-anymore/44872/):
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> You heard about this brand new exciting programming language called Julia and have some suggestions for how it should work. Wonderful! We’re happy to have you here and help you learn the language and listen to your ideas! However, please be aware that “new” is a relative term. Yes, Julia is newer than, say, C, which was first created in 1972 and standardized in 1989. It is not, however, new in the sense that it is still being freely designed and changed in arbitrary ways. Julia development start…

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