Well here you have an example where `%{lua:` is used for a lua block not to
abuse anything, and it would be completely weird and un-intuitive to have to
escape the single empty line and not all the other end of lines.
However I should also say that having to sprinkle `\`s all over your macro
You're supposed use \ line-continuations for multi-line macros, it's even
documented:
http://rpm.org/user_doc/macros
I've seen %{expand: ...} (ab)used similarly for creating "blocks" where you
don't need line-continuations, but that's undocumented behavior.
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