So as to make this not entirely content-free: I would suggest that the
string language note the line on which it sees a bare newline, and if it
subsequently hits a syntax error while still parsing that string it could
output something like perl 5's "Possible runaway multi-line string starting
on line ..." as a suggestion.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 AM, Julien Simonet <kernel.jul...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think your problem is coming from a (") missing at line 3.
>> At the same line, the semicolon (;) is misplaced : it should be at the
>> end if line.
>>
>
> It took older perl over a decade to come up with better error messages for
> this. Can we please do it a bit sooner?
>
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