On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:58:21AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Neither of those are currently legal in infix position. The backslash
> Backslash also has the advantage of making sense to a C programmer:
>
> $foo\
> .foo();
So this also would be legal?
$foo \
.foo();
?
(and therefore presumably the variant that is a bug in C or Makefiles:
$foo \
.foo();
I don't mean that as a counter argument. It's an argument in favour. That
space you can't see is a really annoying invisible bug in C source code that's
sometimes hard to track down. Making it not-a-bug seems good.)
Nicholas Clark
