> On 21 Apr 2017, at 20:27, Ricardo Parada via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > From Joe's email: > > "[...] > Discussion on the list raised the idea of allowing a line to end with \ to > "escape" the newline and elide it from the value of the literal; the core > team had concerns about only allowing that inside multi-line literals and > felt that that could also be considered later as an additive feature. > [...]" > > So it sounds that can be considered in a separate proposal to be added to > normal and multi-line string literals.
Sounds like the solution and would bring strings into line with the precedent in C. Overall, the multi-line proposal held together better when it included this feature.
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