[Python-ideas] Line continuations with comments

[Devin Jeanpierre]

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