Re: slight oddity in script parser

[Bean]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Stefan Reinauer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bean wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Patrick Georgi <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I forgot this, so sorry for the separate mail:
>>> Currently, the parser expects comments to start at the beginning of the
>>> line, so "ls /foo # necessary because of baz" doesn't work properly
>>>
>>> I think a good scenario would be to have comments start either on "#" at
>>> pos0, or on " #". This way, ls /foo#bar continues to work.
>>>
>>> Also, currently the following is a single comment, which is an unusual
>>> feature:
>>> # this comment starts here\
>>> and continues on this line
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Actually, # and \ is handled in the read line function, it can't
>> handle complicated situation.
>>
>
> Are you implying it is wrong there and should be moved to the parser?

Hi,

In theory, it should be handled by the lexer. but actually, it's not
so easy. lexer already has some issue, adding new handling would not
help.

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Bean