[Python-ideas] Line continuations with comments
Devin Jeanpierre
jeanpierreda at gmail.com
Mon Jun 10 21:13:27 CEST 2013
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Stefan Drees <stefan at drees.name> wrote:
> - as continuation signal in shell: who has not been bitten by an
> innocent space following the backslash? ... and it's not the space
> we dislike ;-)
Right, what we dislike is that \ takes invisible whitespace into
account for no good reason.
> - on my console I use three fingers to produce this one symbol "\"
> eg. <ALT-SHIFT-7> so I even might visit trigraph-land again ??/
This isn't a reason to oppose making "\" less painful to use. You can
just as easily not use "\" after the change as before.
-- Devin
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