te characters, <code class="mendoza-code">`</code>).
</p>
<p>While either form can be used for docstrings, long-strings have two advantages
over ordinary strings. First, new lines are preserved. This makes it simple to
write readable strings in code. Second, Janet will automatically removed
indentation (so-called "dedenting") for whitespace that appears before the
column in which the long-string began. This is best seen with an example.
</p>
<pre class="mendoza-codeblock"><code data-language="janet">(<span 