Re: Bug: Literal strings in long format are not quite literal.

[spir <denis.spir@...>]

On 02/11/2012 16:06, Rapin Patrick wrote:
> On Lua 5.2 documentation, the next sentence immediately following your
> citation states:
> "Any kind of end-of-line sequence (carriage return, newline, carriage
> return followed by newline, or newline followed by carriage return) is
> converted to a simple newline."
>
> So this is not a bug, the behavior is documented as this.
> Although personally, I would have preferred if new lines characters were
> handled verbatim.

What about file read (I guess Lua uses the C routine for text files, which does 
not let you the choice, IIRC).

Denis