May 16, 2013
9:55 p.m.
2013/5/16 Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Bruce Leban <bruce@leapyear.org> wrote:
... So what if the rule for trailing \ was changed to:
The \ continuation character may be followed by white space and a comment. If a comment is present, there must be at least one whitespace character between the \ and the comment.
YES!!! Even ignoring string concatenation, this would be a huge win.
Limiting implicit string concatenation to "same logical line" or even "adjacent physical lines joined by a line-continuation '\'-character" *might* be even better.
I think the latter would almost make it explicit string concatenation, no? That sounds like one of the cleanest solutions so far. -- --Dave Peticolas