[Python-ideas] Allowing comments after line continuations

[Jim Jewett]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 5/16/2013 2:41 PM, Bruce Leban wrote:

>> (1) make the backslash more likely to stand out visually (and we can't
>> require a space before it)

> I think it stands out better by itself at the end.

Except that it makes invisible whitespace have a magical effect.

Which -- at least for me -- is the primary reason *why* \-continuation is bad.

Allowing whitespace (including comments) after the line-continuation
would remove that gotcha.

-jJ