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

["Juris Kalnins" <juris@...>]

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.