Re: perl continuation character

Jürgen Exner wrote:
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:39:20 GMT, "Jürgen Exner"
<jurgenex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is a "continuation character"?
Some languages see a newline as the end of a statement, so when
you're writing in one of those you need to escape the newline,
usually with a backslash, for multi-line statements. The escape
character for those languages is called the "continuation
character" because it indicates that the statement will continue
onto the next line.
You mean like for the 6502 assembler for example? I thought fixed
format languages were a relict from the past...
*NIX shells are still like that.

Ah, well, yeah, I guess so.
Although IMHO it is a stretch to call bash or csh or any of those a
programming language

You better not say that on comp.unix.shell :-)



John
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