title: Does JavaScript have literal strings?
body: <p>In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C#</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ruby</a>, and many other languages you can denote a string as to not need escaping.
  In C# it’s like this</p>
  <pre class="lang-csharp prettyprint-override"><code>string s = @&quot;\whatever\this\is&quot;;
  </code></pre>
  <p>The results are when printed:</p>
  <pre><code>\whatever\this\is
  </code></pre>
  <p>Is this supported in any form in JavaScript?</p>