The context where a string literal was found affects what sort of escaping
it can have, so we need to distinguish these cases so that we will only
look for and handle backslash escapes in quoted strings.
In zclwrite we throw away the absolute source position information and
instead just retain the number of spaces before each token. This different
model allows us to rewrite parts of the token sequence without needing
to re-adjust all of the positions, and it also allows us to do simple
indentation and spacing adjustments just by walking through the token
list and adjusting these numbers.
This uses a separate, lower-level AST than the parser so that it can
retain the raw tokens and make surgical changes. As a consequence it
has much less semantic detail than the parser AST, and in particular
doesn't represent the structure of expressions except to retain variable
references to enable global rename operations.