Curious why quotes aren’t allowed to be multiline by default in most programming languages.
In terms of parsing it seems completely unambiguous: you parse a quote and don’t stop consuming until you reach an (unescaped) quote. Newlines don’t factor in at all.
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2024-07-14 20:29:44
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