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backslash-continuations

Posted Apr 20, 2012 9:22 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: Python by ldo
Parent article: The H Speed Guide to Lua (The H)

Let's just say: not everyone agrees.

Like Douglas Crockford: http://www.livestream.com/etsy/video?clipId=pla_1463e546-... (at 31:33)

But not all languages can appeal to every programmer. That will never change.

But backslash-continuations (multiline string literals) did make it into ECMAScript 5. I believe certain browsers already supported it.


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