parsing strings

hello,

there seems to be a problem when parsing multi-line strings:
in the first string there is no space after the \,
while in the second there is.  i tried this on linux,
with the july version of hugs.

 > probelm = "hello \
 >           \world"

 > noproblem = "hello \
 >             \world"


the error i get is:
"Illegal character escape sequence "\w"

bye
iavor

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