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

[David Kolf <kolf@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo schrieb:
> But I'd rather avoid this incompatibility. Perhaps we need a new escape
> sequence, something like this:
> 	a = "a long string\+
> 	continues here without\+
> 	line breaks"

I'd like such a continuation sequence. I'd suggest "\-" since a hyphen
is often used in documents for breaking words across lines.