Bug#417578: ending slash

[Thomas Krennwallner]

Hi!

Chali Ahmul wrote:
> What's the reason to write the ending slash anyway?

No particular reason, if I had something like

  plot "foo1.dat" title "foo1", \
   "foo2.dat" title "foo2", \
   "foo3.dat" title "foo3"

and I wanted to exclude foo2.dat, I would comment the second line out and get

  plot "foo1.dat" title "foo1", \
#   "foo2.dat" title "foo2", \
   "foo3.dat" title "foo3"


But thanks to this bug I have only ended up without an eps file. Alternatively,
I would have excepted a proper syntax error message, but no luck on this one
either.

Best regards,
Thomas

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Bug#417578: ending slash

[Chali Ahmul M.P.U]

I think this is the intended behaviour. Ending slash marks the continuing 
command to the next line. It's the question if this should work in comments 
too, but IMHO it's unambiguous and depends on the developer.

What's the reason to write the ending slash anyway?

Chali Ahmul M.P.U


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