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Re: line continuation with sed

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: line continuation with sed
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 09:53:39 -0700
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On 2022-10-14 22:08, Bart Schaefer wrote:

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.

I remember. But it took a while for the memory to resurface, sorry forflogging a dead horse. (But I do think the horse could be flogged a bitmore ;-)

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