Re: Escaping spaces

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

On 2018-01-07 03:25 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2018-01-07 16:24 GMT+02:00 Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> > 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:"
> Well, long strings (which were introduced in Lua 2.2) can be multiline
> and can be indented. The "\z" escape sequence offers compatibilty
> with Lua 2.1 but apart from that I can't see why one would use it
> instead of a long string.

Doesn't seem to work for me:

$ lua
Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> return #[[{
>>         "hello": "world"
>>     }]]
32
> return #[[{
>>     "hello": "world"
>> }]]
24
>

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