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Ticket 183: Escaped newline removes following whitespace?

2012-10-08 01:15:31
WG1 - Core
alexshinn
major
cowan
fixed
source
closed
2011-05-20 07:11:41
defect

An escaped embedded newline, like:

"asdadf \ asdfadf"

in R6RS has the same meaning as "asdf asdfadf". It allows you to nicely indent strings that you need to line-break for width. I suggest that the production

\ NEWLINE WHITESPACE*

within string literals be elided.

--Andy Wingo

resolution
statusnewdecided

We voted to add this.

statusdecidedwriting
resolutionfixed
statuswritingclosed