Clarify how Rust treats backslashes at end of line in string literals

Rust differs in that behavior from C: In C, the newline escapes are resolved
before anything else, and in Rust this depends on whether the backslash is
escaped itself.

A difference can be observed in the following two programs:

```c
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
	printf("\\
n\n");
	return 0;
}
```

```rust
fn main() {
	println!("\\
n");
}
```

The first program prints two newlines, the second one prints a backslash, a
newline, the latin character n and a final newline.
This commit is contained in:
Tobias Bucher 2016-01-06 00:01:59 +01:00
parent 5253294d22
commit ce6baa77fe

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@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ A _string literal_ is a sequence of any Unicode characters enclosed within two
which must be _escaped_ by a preceding `U+005C` character (`\`).
Line-break characters are allowed in string literals. Normally they represent
themselves (i.e. no translation), but as a special exception, when a `U+005C`
character (`\`) occurs immediately before the newline, the `U+005C` character,
the newline, and all whitespace at the beginning of the next line are ignored.
Thus `a` and `b` are equal:
themselves (i.e. no translation), but as a special exception, when an unescaped
`U+005C` character (`\`) occurs immediately before the newline (`U+000A`), the
`U+005C` character, the newline, and all whitespace at the beginning of the
next line are ignored. Thus `a` and `b` are equal:
```rust
let a = "foobar";