From: nobu@... Date: 2018-03-25T13:11:11+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:86292] [Ruby trunk Feature#4513][Closed] allow whitespace following EOL continuation backslash Issue #4513 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada). Status changed from Feedback to Closed Now: ``` $ ruby -e ' \ ' -e:1: syntax error, unexpected escaped space ``` Close this for now. ---------------------------------------- Feature #4513: allow whitespace following EOL continuation backslash https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4513#change-71208 * Author: Rich_Morin (Rich Morin) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) * Target version: ---------------------------------------- In a few programming languages, the displayed or printed program can hide critical syntactic and/or semantic information. For example, in make(1) and Python, the difference between initial tabs and spaces can cause bugs that are not visually apparent. Ruby has a minor instance of this problem, in that spaces or tabs between a backslash and the EOL will prevent the line from being continued: >> a \ ?> = 2 => 2 >> b \ SyntaxError: compile error (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting $end from (irb):3 Could Ruby open up its syntax to allow any number of intervening spaces or tabs before the EOL? -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: