Heredoc in Javascript

Update 2023: JavaScript now has "native" multiline strings for quite some time:

const monty = `It's only a model.
Who's that then?
On second thoughts, let's not go there.
It is a silly place.`;

console.log(monty);
// It's only a model.
// Who's that then?
// On second thoughts, let's not go there.
// It is a silly place.

Original post for context below.

Most programming languages have a syntax for defining multiline string literals. Here's an example for Ruby:

monty = <<END
It's only a model.
Who's that then?
On second thoughts, let's not go there.
It is a silly place.
END

puts monty.inspect
#=> "It's only a model.\nWho's that then?\nOn second thoughts, let's not go there.\nIt is a silly place.\n"

Javascript, however, does not have such a syntax. You can just insert newline characters yourself (\n), but then you have to escape the actual newline aswell... It's quite messy!

var monty = "It's only a model.\n\
Who's that then?\n\
On second thoughts, let's not go there.\n\
It is a silly place.";

There is, however, a funny hack :)

var monty = (function() {/*Well, we did do the nose.
What do you mean?
She looks like one.
You don't vote for kings.
*/}).toString().match(/[^]*\/\*([^]*)\*\/\}$/)[1];

console.log(monty);
//=> Well, we did do the nose.
//=> What do you mean?
//=> She looks like one.
//=> You don't vote for kings.

And that's how you do Heredocs in Javascript!