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

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Couldn't the lexer recognize any instance of two string-enclosing  
> sequences around a concatenation operator? (This would also result in the  
> ability to avoid constant folding by putting parentheses around a string.)

This was discussed last time as well. This solution requires unbounded
lookahead (and is a parser task, not a lexical task). Consider
	a= ("hello".."world".."from".."Lua")
versus
	a= ("hello".."world".."from".._VERSION)