Hello,
> FWIW, I don't think so. Generally a trailing backspace is an escape
> character for the following newline. And '\ ' is a escaped space,
> which is usualy menas a space itself.
>
> In this case escape character doesn't work generally and I think it is
> natural that a backslash in the middle of a line is a backslash
> character itself.
I concur: The backslash char is only a continuation as the very last
character of the line, before cr/nl line ending markers.
There are no assumption about backslash escaping, quotes and such, which
seems reasonable given the lexing structure of the files, i.e. records of
space-separated words, and # line comments.
--
Fabien.
