From: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:51:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: raw strings may span multiple lines
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2009-11-06~1375
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db7a6221e924772dd426b6b5ad825f8a4732c753;p=gostls13.git

raw strings may span multiple lines

R=r
DELTA=7  (2 added, 0 deleted, 5 changed)
OCL=30492
CL=30494
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diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index 614f8af8c7..9ffcb41a77 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -354,9 +354,10 @@ literals.
 <p>
 Raw string literals are character sequences between back quotes
 <code>``</code>.  Within the quotes, any character is legal except
-newline and back quote. The value of a raw string literal is the
-string composed of the uninterpreted bytes between the quotes;
-in particular, backslashes have no special meaning.
+back quote. The value of a raw string literal is the
+string composed of the uninterpreted characters between the quotes;
+in particular, backslashes have no special meaning and the string may
+span multiple lines.
 </p>
 <p>
 Interpreted string literals are character sequences between double
@@ -386,8 +387,9 @@ interpreted_string_lit = """ { unicode_value | byte_value } """ .
 </pre>
 
 <pre>
-`abc`
-`\n`
+`abc`  // same as "abc"
+`\n
+\n`    // same as "\\n\n\\n"
 "\n"
 ""
 "Hello, world!\n"