RFR: CSR JDK-8233117 Escape Sequences For Line Continuation and White Space (Preview)

[Jim Laskey]

Re-proposed.

> On Nov 5, 2019, at 11:40 AM, Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
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> I'm withdrawing until it is the correct format. Apologies.
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>> On Nov 5, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Please review the following CSR. Provides for the introduction of two new escape sequences \<line-terminator> and \s.  \<line-terminator> allows developers to express unwieldy string literals in a text block as a cluster of short single line segments. The second is to allow developers to express ASCII space, much like \t for tab.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Cheers,
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>> - Jim
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>> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233117
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