Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work3) now available

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 19/05/2010 06:16, M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:
> Encoding long data without unwanted newlines (at least that's what I'm
> going to use it for.)  Sure the syntax is a little ugly, but it works.
> e.g.
>
> data = "bla bla bla bla\*
> 	\032bla bla bla"
>
> -->  "bla bla bla bla bla bla bla"
>
> I wasn't initially a fan of the swallowing of whitespace beyond the
> newline for indenting thing, but can see it's useful and can live with
> escaping leading _wanted_ spaces.

Or write:

data = "bla bla bla bla \*
	bla bla bla"

:-)

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