Re: Why non-escaped newlines are prohibited in single-quoted string literals?

[Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:00 PM, nobody <nobody+lua-list@afra-berlin.de> wrote:

also some beginners

Using IDEs like ZeroBrane instead of notepad is highly recommended for beginners.

and (color-)blind people

Even color-blinded people can tune their text editors to use bold/italic/inversion text
attributes to use for syntax highlighting.

I didn't get your point.

You are talking about debuggability but refusing to use tools that facilitating it.

If you want a language that will automatically not admit you to make an error,
you probably should avoid using dynamically typed languages.

Lua gives you flexibility at the cost of your increased responsibility
(and I like this trade-off!).