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

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > How about automatic concatenation of juxtaposed string literals, as C does?
> > No need for special escape sequences at all! =)
>
> This already has a meaning in Lua: f "hi" "ho"  is equivalent to
> f("hi")("ho")

But does it have to have that meaning in Lua 5.2+ ?
I doubt there are much code around with constructions like
    f "hi" "ho" "ha" "he".
Just let the parser to concatenate all these adjacent string literals.

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Shmuel