# What is "language quotations"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/what-is-language-quotations/553>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 15, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/what-is-language-quotations/553 "2014-07-15T18:34:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![dodyg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.kotlinlang.org/dodyg/32/1451_2.png) [@dodyg](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/dodyg)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/what-is-language-quotations/553/1 "2014-07-15T18:34:53Z")

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This was mentioned in the Kotlin FAQ [http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/faq.html](http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/faq.html)

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**Author:** ![geevee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.kotlinlang.org/geevee/32/1475_2.png) [@geevee](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/geevee)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/what-is-language-quotations/553/2 "2014-07-18T13:16:59Z")

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The idea was to support special string literals written in another language (e.g. SQL) with injected parts of Kotlin. Something similar to Language Injection feature of IntelliJ IDEA, but supported by compiler.

This FAQ was written long time ago, when implementation of Kotlin had only started. This feature is unlikely to be implemented in Kotlin 1.0, so we’d better remove it from FAQ.