Lua 5.0 alpha long string quirk

[Björn De Meyer <bjorn.demeyer@...>]

Suppose I want to print the string following
three line string in lua:
Hello brackets!
[[]
How are you?


Then it's impossible to do this using the
following single long string: 
[[
Hello brackets!
[[]
How are you?]]]]

As the two final brackets will be added in the string.

The lua lexer tries to balance opening [[ with ]], 
to allow for nesting comments. However, this balancing 
has some quirky effects when using [[ in such a long string. 
It's a a minor quirk that I wanted to point out. Maybe it 
would be better not to try and match the [[]] brackets? 
Or only match[[ bracets with ]] when in a comment?

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Daniel Remar.
Björn De Meyer 
bjorn.demeyer@pandora.be