Re: [BUG] In reference to patch 39815, about (z) flag and $( parse error

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:49:17 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So the doc says that (Z:n:) "causes unquoted newlines to be treated as
> ordinary whitespace" but in fact what it really does is cause newline
> *not* to be converted into a separator; it is still labeled as its
> own separate token, which confuses this parse.
> 
> The following fixes it, but it seems a hack -- is there a better way?

To restrict it just to this case, you mean?  It ought to be possible to
detect specific flags.  But as long as it does something plausible I
don't think it matters.  The way it sits on top of the lexical analyser
is perpetual work in progress.

pws