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What should semantic diffs highlight: The change or its effect?
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Would make what clearer?
If I change a string to a raw string or an interpolated string, it is a semantic change on the entire string, even if it leads to consequential changes only on subsections of it. The next time or additional changes I make must take different semantics into account.