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Comment by rererereferred | Hacker News Reader

In the C# multiquoted strings, how does it know this:

   Console.WriteLine("""""");
   Console.WriteLine("""""");

Are 2 triplequoted empty strings and not one "\nConsole.WriteLine(" sixtuplequoted string?

It's a syntax error!

  Unterminated raw string literal.

Ah, so there is no backtracking in lexer for this case. Makes sense.

If the opening quotes are followed by anything that is not a whitespace before the next new-line (or EOF), then it's a single-line string.

I imagine implementing those things took several iterations :)

The former, I'd say.

For a multi-line string the quotes have to be on their own line.