Using two slashes (//) in a string breaks the parser

Recently ran into the issue that using two consecutive slashes in a string breaks the parser, because it reads the remainder of the line as a comment. For example, this won’t compile:

say "http://example.org"

A temporary workaround is to use string interpolation:

slash = "/"
say "http:/{slash}example.org"

(but this is obviously a bit annoying)