Re: comments break \ at end of line

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Adam wrote:
>   % foo () {
>   > echo hello, \
>   > # this is a comment
>   > world
>   > }
>   % foo
>   hello,
>   foo:3: command not found: world
>   
> which is the same issue as
> 
>   % echo hello, \
>   > # comment
>   hello,
> 
> This may be intentional, but if so, it strikes me as a rather
> undesirable feature, or at least one which you should be able to turn
> off.

I don't really see how it could be any different.  The `\' just skips the
newline, turning the line into `echo hello, # this is a comment'.  `\'
never forces it into any different state of parsing, it only escapes the
next character.  What are you suggesting?  I don't see how you can turn it
off without writing a completely new (= bugridden) way of lexing.

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