Re: Escaping spaces

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-01-07 5:01 GMT+02:00 Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
>
> With \z, multiline strings are nicer, as they can be indented:
>
> print("{\n\z
>     \x20   \"hello\": \"world\"\n\z
>     }")
>
> Sadly, as that example shows, I need to use an "\x20".
>
> It would be nice if "\ " (or, arguably, any other whitespace) was an explicit way to break a \z.

Isn't that just a tortuous way of coding something that Lua
can do much more conveniently?

print [[{
    "hello": "world"
}]]