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Subject: Re: [9front] rc oddity with quote and backslash
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 17:52, Xiao-Yong Jin <meta.jxy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ; xs=(a\
>         b\
>         c\
>         )
> ; echo $#xs
> 3
> ; xs=('a'\
> rc: #d/0: syntax error
> ; xs=('a' \
>         'b' \
>         'c' \
>         )
> ; echo $#xs
> 3
>
> The sequence of quote-backslash-newline somehow is not interpreted as quote-blank, but a syntax error.  I don't think it's documented anywhere.
>

Same result on p9p.

Mark.