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Re: syntactic trivia

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: syntactic trivia
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 15:32:17 +0000
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2021-01-02 06:57:32 -0800, Ray Andrews:
[...]
>     [ true ] && do-this\    # No comments here, please.
>              || do-that
> 
> I wonder how much trouble allowing that would be.  Probably written in stone
> that it will never happen, still, it's an obvious exception and I'd guess it
> would only take five minutes to code, the parser just throws out any comment
> before throwing out the backslash and the newline.  A tiny luxury.
[...]

You can write it:

true &&
  do-this || # comment
  do-that

\ followed by a space is a quoted space like ' '.

-- 
Stephane

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