On Sep 30, 2019, at 6:37 PM, Brian Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > > This seems to cross the line between “new escape sequence” and “bespoke > string literal language..."
Nope, I disagree. It just applies the current concept “ancillary trailing space” (which did not cross that line) to the spaces before \ at the end of the line. When you think about the detailed mechanics of ancillary spaces before \LT, you surely note that some tricky processing is going on, since they are stripped via a different rule than ancillary spaces before LT. Maybe that makes the feature feel weighty to you. But users won’t care a bit. They will just know that unescaped spaces at the end of the line are ancillary whether or not \ is present between them and the LT. That makes the overall user model simpler, not more complex.
