Re: Backslash-newline escape as a line continuation rather than a newline?

[M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja@...>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Jonathan Castello wrote:

> Is there a reason you can't use the [[multiline string]] syntax?

Yes.  The string contains newlines only sporadically.  Multiline 
string syntax embeds newlines in the string, except for the first one 
right after the opening [[.  I'd have to escape the newlines which
are there, introduce new ones at regular intervals, and then at
runtime remove the new ones and unescape the original ones.  This 
solution is unpleasant.

As for concatenation, I get the error "chunk has too many syntax 
levels" if I try to use concatenation like this: "foo".."bar".. <...> 
"baz", after a few hundred strings.  The solution table.concat{ "foo", 
"bar", <...>, "baz"} does work, but I would rather not import millions 
of small strings when I could import just the one huge one once.

Cheers,

Joonas