From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: line continuation with sed
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 09:53:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e4d53a2-226e-a0ae-a1f7-87619eaff155@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7Yp++F1A4JGtrp5cmXRah2dDgwuit_6aKDSoQTX+phuWA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2022-10-14 22:08, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> We went through this a while ago. A comment can't end with a line
> continuation because then it's not possible to distinguish where the
> comment itself ends (is the following line part of the comment?). A
> comment can't follow a line continuation for the same reason a space
> can't.
I remember. But it took a while for the memory to resurface, sorry for
flogging a dead horse. (But I do think the horse could be flogged a bit
more ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-15 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-13 18:25 Ray Andrews
2022-10-14 6:35 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-10-14 11:20 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-10-14 15:44 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-14 17:10 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-10-14 20:38 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-10-14 22:26 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-14 10:57 ` Marc Chantreux
2022-10-14 11:19 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-14 17:15 ` Dominik Vogt
2022-10-14 22:21 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-15 2:34 ` Aaron Schrab
2022-10-15 2:57 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-15 5:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-15 16:53 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2022-10-17 1:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-17 3:40 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-17 4:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-17 9:19 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2022-10-17 9:24 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2022-10-17 9:31 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2022-10-17 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
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