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- Subject: Re: Significant newlines
- From: Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@...>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:02:27 -0700
On 16-08-31 10:38 AM, Soni L. wrote:
> In Lua, you can't put a line break in the middle of a string. However,
> ever since Lua 5.2, newlines are equivalent to whitespace everywhere else.
There is no such problem with long-quoted strings.
For short-quoted-string there is magical escape sequence "\" <LF>.
If apply your proposal
1) "\" <LF> sequence becomes redundant
2) Possible tails space truncations after saving
"three_tail_spaces...
next_line"
