Re: [Oorexx-devel] Continuation and comments

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

The only one that might be dodgy is the second one.  I'm a little
surprised to see the command not be terminated at the linend of the
second line.  But by the rules for comment parsing, they are just
thrown away, as if they didn't exists, although they do function as
token separators.  If you apply that rule to each of your examples,
the handling is consistent.  Thus the first example reduces to

say 'Start',
'End'

The second also becomes

say 'Start',
'End'

but the third reduces to

say 'Start',

'End'

Only linends inside of a comment are removed by the parser, so there
is a null clause between the two instructions.

Rick

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, James Johnson <ji...@il...> wrote:
> If a comment does not start on the same line as the continuation then
> the comment
> acts like a semicolon and terminates the clause.
>
> Examples:
>
> say 'Start', /* this comment ok */
> 'End'
>
> say 'Start', /*
>  this comment ok */
> 'End'
>
> say 'Start', -- this comment ok
> /* this comment acts as a semicolon */
> 'End'
>
> say 'Start',
> /* this comment acts as a semicolon */
> 'End'
>
> Running the above produces the following:
>
> Start End
> Start End
> Start
> 'End' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Start
> 'End' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Is this the way it is intended to work? I did not find anything in the doc
> that states that comments can not follow a continued line or that a
> comment block
> must start on the continued line.
>
> James Johnson
>
>
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