Gnu manual reads: To ignore errors in a recipe line, write a '-' at the beginning of the line's text (after the initial tab)...
I think it would be good if the implementation changed to allow instead To ignore errors in a recipe line, write a '-' as the first character of the line's text (immediately after the initial tab with no other preceding whitespace)... This would allow the use of '--' following an initial space after the tab to serve its usual role introducing an SQL comment, allowing commenting out selected lines of SQL statement within a HERE string. ~Malcolm