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

[frank <frank@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> 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.

How about automatic concatenation of juxtaposed string literals, as C does?
No need for special escape sequences at all! =)

Regards, Frank