Re: Fwd: Heritage of Lua syntax for multi-line strings and comments

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Philippe Verdy once stated:
> We should be able to place comment anywhere (including in the middle of any
> lexical token, and in the middle of long literals with a proper syntaxe of
> these literals allowing them to be segmented and automatically concatenated
> by the parser if they are splitted into multiple tokens (to break too long
> lines, or insert comments or o
> processing directives, we should allow thèse delimted tokens to be
> separaetd by any whitespaces or even none, without needing any additional
> operator tokens).

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  But by all means, present a working proof of concept so it can be judged
on its merits.

  -spc