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| Re: Ignore break line sometimes monnier@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) (2012-02-12) |
| Re: Ignore break line sometimes Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid (Joshua Cranmer) (2012-02-12) |
| Re: Ignore break line sometimes kaz@kylheku.com (Kaz Kylheku) (2012-02-13) |
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| Re: Ignore break line sometimes genew@ocis.net (Gene Wirchenko) (2012-02-19) |
| Re: Ignore break line sometimes gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2012-02-20) |
| Re: Ignore break line sometimes arnold@skeeve.com (2012-02-23) |
| Re: Ignore break line sometimes jthorn@astro.indiana.edu (Jonathan Thornburg) (2012-02-27) |
| From: | arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:51:46 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | A noiseless patient Spider |
| References: | 12-02-010 12-02-017 12-02-023 12-02-024 |
| Keywords: | parse |
| Posted-Date: | 23 Feb 2012 23:47:06 EST |
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>I believe that there are a few other languages with a similar
>continuation method. That is, if you end a statement in a legal
>end, no continuation is needed.
Awk is like this. You can continue after a comma, && or ||. Possibly
in other places too. You can supply semicolons to separate statements
on the same line, if you want.
It tends to work fairly naturally in awk, I rarely use \ to continue
onto the next line. :-)
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