> Just ignore me if that's been covered in the archives already (there is a lot 
> there, I'm still catching up), but is there a reason we can't just allow 
> newlines in the existing string constants and be done with it? Since they've 
> been invalid so far, nobody has code that contains line breaks that could be 
> broken. At worst the code formatter would have to be told not to indent such 
> lines, but beyond that, why are newlines in strings not permitted?

In short: Runaway strings. If you forget to include an ending ", the resulting 
error may be miles away from where you actually made a mistake.

-- 
Brent Royal-Gordon
Architechies

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