From: "Phil Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: continuations > John Chambers wrote: > > >Another fringe case is what happens when a line ends with '\', a > >space, and a newline. It's common for many implementations to not > >recognize this as a continuation. This one is really baffling to a > >user, who usually can't see the space. The right way to handle this > >is to strip off the trailing spaces (and tabs), and then check for > >the final '\'. The input routine is now not quite as trivial (though > >it's still pretty trivial). > > BarFly does that (at least for spaces - I'm not sure about other > whitespaces). Another thing that's a problem is % comments following > the backslash. That's more complicated to deal with, and I'd like > to see it illegal. I'd second that!
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