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Expand Up @@ -523,6 +523,12 @@ is, empty multi-line strings are legal).
In other words, the final line specifies the whitespace prefix that will be
removed from all other lines.

Whitespace-only lines (that is, lines containing only literal whitespace
characters, not including whitespace escapes like `\t`) always represent
empty lines in the string value, regardless of what whitespace they
contain (if any). They do not have to start with the same whitespace prefix
that other lines do; all characters on the line are ignored.

Multi-line Strings that do not immediately start with a Newline and whose final
`"""` is not preceeded by optional whitespace and a Newline are illegal. This
also means that `"""` may not be used for a single-line String (e.g.
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