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

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Well, if I understood correctly, this syntax is to have long strings 
> without line breaks.
> For what you show, long string syntax might be better adapted...

The aim is to be able to have a correct indentation, I think.
Even if I'd hate to introduce another operator, perhaps a "compile time 
concatenation" operator could be much cleaner:

 local s = "hello, I am " ##
           "a long string"

(The ## symbol here is arbitrary, of course)

  Enrico