Re: @ continuation not working in @def...

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 02:54:02PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 02:41:46PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> I think the problem is due to the fact that the file I was using ended
> lines with \x0d\x0a (MS-DOS style).

Indeed, the problem happen even outside of @def*.  Also I checked that
it happens with the pure perl parser too.  My intuition is that on MS
windows the problem does not appear with pure perl code, but I have no
idea about the XS code.  Also, it is not clear to me whether we want any
end of line work on any platform. 

In perl, since 5.10, there seems to be a special escape \R that could be
used for that in the pure perl parser, though it would not help in the
XS codes.  

Should we try to modify the parsers to handle dos eol on Unix like
platforms?  In that case I could have a go at the perl parser maybe this
weekend.

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Pat