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

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 29/01/17 10:22 AM, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 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.
>
> I think Lua would be a bit more comfortable to use
> with unnecessary prohibition removed.
>
> -- Egor

I wish we had something slightly different:

[\[can\nuse\nescape\ncodes\nhere]]

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