Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc6) now available

[David Given <dg@...>]

HyperHacker wrote:
[...]
> So it's \z now to continue a line? That's kinda ugly. What's wrong
> with just \<line break>?

That already means 'literal newline':

a = "foo\
bar"
print(a)

->

foo
bar

Yeah, \z is ugly, but TBH I can't think of anything cleaner they could
have done, and it *is* needed.

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