No, although you're right, it doesn't look like they make it clear (although the example is in a little code element which presumably doesn't have leading or tr

No, although you're right, it doesn't look like they make it clear (although the example is in a little code element which presumably doesn't have leading or trailing newlines). Later on, > In the case of multi_line_raw_string_literal the initial whitespace* new_line and the final new_line whitespace* is not part of the value of the string.