Re: patch: C-style string lexing
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- Subject: Re: patch: C-style string lexing
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: 2008年2月01日 08:31:57 +0900
"Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly@gmail.com> writes:
> a = "a piece of a string
> "another piece
> "the end";
>
> It's completely backwards compatible with core Lua now as far as I can
> tell.
I think having intentionally mis-matched quotes is likely to cause
confusion though (both for readers and syntax-aware editors)...
Is it possible to define new \ escapes in Lua? Perhaps there could be
some new \ escape which is sort of like \-newline, except that it would
ignore any following (source) whitespace (including the newline)? Say,
for instance, "\*"; then one could write:
a = "a piece of a string\*
another piece\*
the end";
Maybe not the prettiest, but not too bad, and a bit more conventional
looking to help the readers (and syntax-aware editors).
[The reason why I said "(source) whitespace" is so that in case one
wanted to include some whitespace at the beginning of lines, one could
write something like:
a = "line1\n\*
\ line2\n*
\ line3";
]
-Miles
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