Newlines in single line strings should only be a warning for now.
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ class Lexer:
elif tid == 'string':
# Handle here and not on the regexp to give a better error message.
if match_text.find("\n") != -1:
- raise ParseException("Use ''' (three single quotes) for multiline strings.", self.getline(line_start), lineno, col)
+ mlog.warning("""Newline character in a string detected, use ''' (three single quotes) for multiline strings instead.
+This will become a hard error in a future Meson release.""", self.getline(line_start), lineno, col)
value = match_text[1:-1].replace(r"\'", "'")
value = newline_rx.sub(r'\1\n', value)
value = value.replace(r" \\ ".strip(), r" \ ".strip())
