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On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:41:08 +0300, M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi> 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.

You can just modify read_string function in llex.c to do that in your Lua.
That won't affect compatibility of produced bytecode.