Re: Backslash-newline escape as a line continuation rather than a newline?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> In Lua 5.2 string literals could the backslash-newline escape code 
> swallow the newline character rather than embedding it into the 
> string?  This would be similar to C's continuation lines.

Certainly that was a bad design decision. But changing it now would
create the worst type of incompatibility: no compilation errors, no
run-time errors, only very subtle bugs in several programs.

-- Roberto