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[Stewart Gordon]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
<snip>
> Here's a string which is valid in D but is invalid in C:
> 
> "foo
> bar"
> 
> Here's another string which is, on the contrary, valid in C but is
> invalid in D:
> 
> "foo\
> bar"
> 
> They both "span lines."

Doesn't quite relate to what I was querying ... but anyway, it's 
perfectly straightforward to add another rule like

LineSplice = \

among other possibilities.

You could argue over whether it's worth going to all this effort, if you 
think the only point is to support C, C++ and D.  But really, there are 
many C-like languages out there with their own slightly different rules, 
and even the likes of Prolog, SQL and Unix shell scripts with their own 
variants of C string syntax.  I think the scheme I've come up with would 
be a good way to capture the subtle differences between these languages' 
string syntaxes, while at the same time being something that the average 
user wanting to add a new language to the system should be able to get 
their head around sooner or later.

Stewart.