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.