Re: comments break \ at end of line

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> 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.

And the /bin/sh, ksh and bash here behave the same.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de