John Chambers wrote: >Another fringe case is what happens when a line ends with '\', a >space, and a newline. It's common for many implementations to not >recognize this as a continuation. This one is really baffling to a >user, who usually can't see the space. The right way to handle this >is to strip off the trailing spaces (and tabs), and then check for >the final '\'. The input routine is now not quite as trivial (though >it's still pretty trivial).
BarFly does that (at least for spaces - I'm not sure about other whitespaces). Another thing that's a problem is % comments following the backslash. That's more complicated to deal with, and I'd like to see it illegal. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
