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[Mike Maxwell]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> Semicolons are only allowed with simple statements, not compound statements:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/ref/compound.html

Aargh, I'm getting perl envy...

> Note that the '\' characters cause unix to include the newline in the string, 
> instead of reading it as the command terminator.  I don't know how to do this 
> in Windows.

Yes, I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work inside (Gnu) makefiles, 
either (at least I can't see how to do it).

Thanks for the answers, even if they weren't what I was hoping for :-).

	Mike Maxwell