Re: Another one for the surprise list: "?" after a continuation

"Mark Miller" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:31:05 -0700

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Kevin Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
>  MarkM, can you comment on what the proper behavior for the parser in
>  this case is? I'm not saying that it should parse as a such-that, but
>  should it be a comment or a parse error?

I prefer that

    "\\", "\n" <whitespace> "?"

sequence cause a parse error, because there's no reliable way to
disambiguate what the programmer meant.

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 Cheers,
 --MarkM