Re: Lua syntax gotcha

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:24 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

> Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> writes:
>
> > If unexpected line continuations are the problem, then obviously what
> > Lua needs is a line continuation character. It goes in column 7 as I
> > recall. ;-)
>
> Even 1-based (as Lua programmers would have it) it goes in column 6.

I think I was remembering COBOL:

	• Cobol: String constants may be continued by not ending the original  
string in a PICTURE clause with ', then inserting a - in column 7  
(same position as the * for comment is used.)

Or a corrupted mixture of COBOL and FORTRAN syntax.

Mark