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

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
>> Couldn't Lua's lexer, while reading a "-delimited string, just
>> squash an embedded "<ws>..<ws>" sequence without the parser ever
>> even knowing about it (where <ws> means [ \t\n])...?
>
> It could but it gets messy because you're actually parsing a micro language:
> you'd need to call get_token within get_token; not pretty.

Sure, but the ability to easily just punt makes it a _lot_ more tractable
-- you don't really need to handle the general case, just enough to make
the feature useful (with appropriate documentation of the limits one
needs to respect).

-Miles

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