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Comment by nunobrito

3 days ago

Fully agree with most votings but 3/10 text blocks?!

That has got to be one of the most useful recent features. :-)

The pleasure of just copying and paste text in plain ASCII that looks as intended rather than a huge encoded mess of "\r\n"+ concatenations.

But ok, I'm just an ASCII art fan. ^_^

String sql = “Not having “ +

“to break up “ +

“SQL statements” +

“like this for readability “ +

“thus making them hard to edit “ +

“was incredibly useful at my job.”;

(Note: I put a subtle bug in there because it always happened)

SQL injection is horrible, but people were managing to do that all these years after prepared statements anyway without text blocks. I really don’t think they made things worse. Same thing with embedding HTML in the code. They were gonna do it anyway.