What is the point of @{'/path/to/static_content'} in PlayFramework?

If I'm writing an HTML template that contains a reference to a URL in Play!, then I can do it in one of two ways. Like normal HTML:

<img src="/public/images/bananas.png">

Or with the special @{'开发者_如何学运维'} wrapper:

<img src="@{'/public/images/bananas.png'}">

As far as I can tell, these two methods produce the exact same result, and I don't see a reason to make it any more flexible than it is.

So what's the purpose of the extra characters?

EDIT: Sorry, dumb question.

The @{...} wrapper adds the context path of your application to the path. Say you deploy your application to run under http://example.com/application/ instead of directly in http://example.com/ this means

<img src="@{'/public/images/bananas.png'}">

would become

<img src="/application/public/images/bananas.png">