27 and counting

One more year has passed. My life had some drammatic ups and downs than this year. I can't say I'm full out in the clear, but I've closed some things from the past and can look with hope to the future. I can't be happier for having so many good friends and I know things are going to get better.
As it's wishing time, I'd like for java to have verbatim literals, that means you could omit the backslash in front of special characters (like the backslash itself) ex:
"Backslash: \\" <==> @"Backslash: \"

I think this would allow us to much easier copy/paste regex code from existing regex expressions.

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