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Re: line continuation with sed



On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 7:58 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You method permits the comments where they
> naturally belong.  Mind, it seems to me that comments after a line wrap
> would be easy to implement but that's not what we have.

We went through this a while ago.  A comment can't end with a line
continuation because then it's not possible to distinguish where the
comment itself ends (is the following line part of the comment?).  A
comment can't follow a line continuation for the same reason a space
can't.




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