On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Bruce Leban <bruce@leapyear.org> wrote:
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:38 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
Why do you say """there must be at least one whitespace character between the \ and the comment"""?
Two reasons:
(1) make the backslash more likely to stand out visually (and we can't require a space before it)
(2) \# looks like it might be an escape sequence of some sort while I don't think \ # does, making this friendlier to readers.
I'm not passionate about that detail if the rest of the proposal flies.
Spin that off as a separate thread, I think the change to the backslash rules stands alone. I would support it; allowing a line-continuation backslash to be followed by a comment is a Good Thing imo. ChrisA