Allowing comments after the line continuation backslash

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2010-11-03, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> I would do the same, but fix the indentation. Making
> indentation depend on the *length* of the previous line is
> needlessly making a maintenance burden.
>
> Instead, I'd do::
>
>     styles = [
>         ("normal",      "image",     MainWindow.ColorsNormalList),
>         ("highlighted", "highlight", MainWindow.ColorsHighlightedList),
>         ("selected",    "select",    MainWindow.ColorsSelectedList)]

Agreed, except cute stuff like putting those three items in
columns is just as bad.

Code should be utilitarian rather than ornate, Shaker rather than
Victorian.

-- 
Neil Cerutti