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

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> Not exactly. A simple constant folding would only move the concatenation
> from run time to compile time (which in Lua is not such a big
> difference, unless the string is defined multiple times).  

And unless you have a very small amount of memory (e.g. in embedded 
systems).

> The compiler would still create all those small strings and keep
> them alive, as they are constants in the code.

Too bad... couldn't it infer that they're not referred anywere? (just 
out of curiosity, I'm definitely not an expert on this)

  Enrico