<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">[Proposal: <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0182-newline-escape-in-strings.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0182-newline-escape-in-strings.md</a>]<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a tiny, tiny point amidst the broader discussions others are having, but</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• All whitespace characters between \ and the newline are disregarded.</blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Why? Why bother allowing whitespace characters between \ and the newline?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Jordan</div></div></body></html>