Perl has quote operators which come close, but they start with a letter followed by your choice of delimiter: my $string1 = q{for example}; my $string2 = q

Perl has quote operators which come close, but they start with a letter followed by your choice of delimiter: my $string1 = q{for example}; my $string2 = q<angle brackets>; my $string3 = q/or any other symbol/;