Re: Escaping spaces

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2018-01-07 04:48 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 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"
> }]]

Re-read the first line. For your convenience I'm pasting it here:

"With \z, multiline strings are nicer, as they can be indented:"

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