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

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Sure, with every syntax change, some existing code needs to be
> fixed. But in the case of this (proposed) change:
> a) there is not so much code to fix (cases like the above are rare), and
> b) the fix is local and trivial

I guess the same is true about removing the '\n' from strings broken
with '\'.

-- Roberto