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

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

On 30/01/17 02:47 AM, Charles Heywood wrote:
> \[[ works fine IMO; \[==[ so there's no debate on whether it should be 
> before or after the equals. i'm probably going to write a really quick 
> function `e` to shove somewhere that works like e[[te\nxt]] now that i 
> think about this.

Yeah, I guess nobody minds parsing a 1MB string at runtime...

Anyway, if you really wanna do this, modify something that already exists:

https://github.com/SoniEx2/Stuff/blob/master/lua/String.lua

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 6:42 PM Egor Skriptunoff 
> <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com <mailto:egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com
>     <mailto:fakedme@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I wish we had something slightly different:
>
>         [\[can\nuse\nescape\ncodes\nhere]]
>
>
>     [===\[...]===]
>     or
>     [\===[...]===]
>     ?
>
> --

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