[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-1968882 ] [info complete] incompatibility between 8.4 and 8.5

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Bugs item #1968882, was opened at 2008-05-21 11:58
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Category: 44. Parsing and Eval
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Don Porter (dgp)
Summary: [info complete] incompatibility between 8.4 and 8.5

Initial Comment:
In tcl 8.4, if I type a plain backslash at the tclsh interactive prompt, the interpreter sees the newline as a line-continuation and waits for the rest of the line.

In tcl 8.5, the interpreter seems to see the backslash as a command.

C:\>tclsh85
% info patchlevel
8.5.2
% \
invalid command name "\"
% exit
C:\>tclsh84
% info patchlevel
8.4.18
% \
#
% exit
C:\>

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>Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2008-05-21 12:08

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confirmed 2006-07-05 commit
introduced this.

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2008-05-21 12:05

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Simpler characterization:

[info complete \\\n] gives
different answers in 8.4 and 8.5.

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