+As described above, there would be a lot involved in handling the parsing ambiguities with `/.../` delimiters. It's one thing to do this in the compiler. But the language also has to be understood by a plethora of source code editors. Those editors either need encode all those ambiguities, or they need to provide a "best effort" at handling the most common cases. It's all too common for editors to take the "best effort" route. There's a long history of complaints with editors that don't completely support a language's features. And indeed, there's plenty of history of editors that don't correctly support regular expression literals in other languages. By choosing a literal that is easily parsed, we should avoid seeing those complaints regarding Swift.
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