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

[Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@...>]

On 01/29/2017 04:22 AM, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> I have a suggestion to allow using of non-escaped newlines
> in literal strings delimited by single or double quotes.
> 
> I think it would be handy all these three definitions to be
> syntactically valid and equivalent:
> 
> local str1 = 'A
> B'
> local str2 = 'A\
> B'
> local str3 = 'A\nB'
> 
> Currently, the definition of str1 gives syntax error.
> I don't see any problems that could appear by enabling syntax
> used for str1.

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