RE: [Yaml-core] example C6

[Oren Ben-K. <or...@ri...>]

Steve Howell wrote:
> 
> plain: This unquoted
>        scalar spans
>        many lines.
> quoted: "\
>   So does this quoted
>   scalar.\n"
> 
> My best guess:
> 
> plain: "This unquoted scalar spans many lines."
> quoted: "So does this quoted scalar.\n"

Correct.

> Why is there a backslash on the first line of the "quoted" value, but
> not the second?

Because there's nothing before the 'S'. Without a backslash there would have
been. There is something between the 'd' and the 's' - a space (serialized
as a line break).

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki