* Michael Fowler <michael@shoebox.net> [120808 17:08]:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:05:23AM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > FYI: I am a former C programmer, but years removed. C *should*
> > recognize a newline as ascii 10. C would also recognize an escaped
> > newline as '\n' or ascii 92, ascii 110 (I think).
>
> I was speaking of a literal newline, not an escape sequence. It appears
> JavaScript requires you to escape newlines in strings; for example, this
> is valid code (with surrounding test case):
>
> <html>
> <head><script type="text/javascript">
> function t() {
> alert(
> "hi\
> how are you?\
> good!"
> );
> }
In this case, I get a "This is an ES5 feature" message, so I am
alerted. But I'm glad you brought that up. My modified minifier
would result in the message not being displayed as the author
meant it. However, it is not something that I would use as a
general practice. However, I might choose to minify someone else's
code which might use such a practice. I'm beginning to think that
I shouldn't be messing with Crockford's approach...
cheers
-- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Wed Aug 8 18:37:32 2012
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