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

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

Put it on the 6.0 list then? :P

On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:47:44 -0600, Roberto Ierusalimschy  
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > In Lua 5.2 string literals could the backslash-newline escape code
> > swallow the newline character rather than embedding it into the
> > string?  This would be similar to C's continuation lines.
>
> Certainly that was a bad design decision. But changing it now would
> create the worst type of incompatibility: no compilation errors, no
> run-time errors, only very subtle bugs in several programs.
>
> -- Roberto