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language syntaxes such as URIs, HTML, and JavaScript,
exploring the benefits, costs, and compatibility issues
in adopting the proposed matchertext discipline.
An empirical analysis of roughly 470~million string literals
drawn from thousands of production repositories
finds that real-world code is already overwhelmingly compliant
with this discipline,
and that adopting it could eliminate
around 95\% of the backslash escapes in string literals.
We also present MinML,
an experimental markup syntax designed around matchertext,
as a concise but general alternative syntax for writing HTML or XML.
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