Re: Why non-escaped newlines are prohibited in single-quoted string literals?

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Subject: Re: Why non-escaped newlines are prohibited in single-quoted string literals?
From: Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>
Date: 2017年1月30日 01:35:48 +0300

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a suggestion to allow using of non-escaped newlines
> in literal strings delimited by single or double quotes.

I don't see the need for such a feature.

I don't see a new feature here.

It is just removing of unneeded syntax prohibition (inherited from C).

I think that Lua parser will become a bit simpler.

A programmer will get a bit more freedom.

It is funny that even binary zero is allowed inside literal strings,
but not binary newline.
print(load("return 'A0円B' ")():byte(1,-1)) --> 65 0 66

References:
- Why non-escaped newlines are prohibited in single-quoted string literals?, Egor Skriptunoff
- Re: Why non-escaped newlines are prohibited in single-quoted string literals?, Dirk Laurie

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