From: Marc Chantreux <khatar@...>
Date: 2011-01-27T15:15:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34887] Re: make ruby support line continuations ?

hello, 

> $ ruby -v; ruby fred; cat fred
> ruby 1.9.2p94 (2010-12-08 revision 30140) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]
> options = { # defaults
>     source_dir:   '/usr/share/vim/addons' \
>    ,system_dir:  '/var/lib/vim/addons'   \
> }

I just compiled and tried: it works and that's good. But actually i
still wonder why those \ are mandatory and think my initial question is
still relevant. don't you think having punctuation as start of line is
a good way to avoid the \ noise ? 

regards
marc