Implements "gaps" in string literals. These are escape sequences of the
form `"\" newline whitespace+` that have the interpretation of an empty
string. For example,
```
"this is \
a string"
```
is equivalent to `"this is a string"`. These are modeled after string
continuations in
[Rust](https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/tokens.html#string-literals).
Implements RFC #2838
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