Add Rust-style string continuation escapes - #617
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Summary
Motivation
RON currently treats a backslash immediately before a newline as an unknown escape. Supporting Rust-style continuations lets multiline string literals follow the surrounding indentation without including that newline and indentation in the deserialized value.
This implements the parser and grammar update requested in #585 (comment).
Impact
Standard string and byte-string literals can now use line continuations. Raw strings, character literals, and serialization output are unchanged.
Validation
cargo test --test escapecargo test --all-features --all-targetscargo check --no-default-featurescargo fmt --all -- --checkCHANGELOG.md