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

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 1/30/2017 2:56 AM, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Martin
> <eden_martin_fuhrspam@gmx.de <mailto:eden_martin_fuhrspam@gmx.de>>
> wrote:
>
>
>     return 'Whoops! someone ate tail apostrophe...
>
>
> Any character inside any variable name can be eaten too,
> and horrible thing (global variable is used instead of local one)
> happens.
> Nevertheless you can live happily with it.
>
> Closing "end" of some block (for-end, do-end, function-end)
> could be eaten too, and Lua raises error
> "'end' expected near ..."
> without giving you a knowledge about the line#
> where the error actually happened.
> Usually error message points to the very end of your file.
> Nevertheless you can live happily with it.

Use an editor with indentation and folding... I do not use visual 
indentation, folding marks are usually good enough for me.

> The situation with apostrophe been eaten does not introduce
> "horrible things" which previously do not exist in Lua.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Selangor, Malaysia