[ On Friday, July 26, 2002 at 00:47:05 (+0100), Patrick Welche wrote: ]
> Subject: make and comments
>
> Just discovered on the automake list that our make doesn't honour escaped
> comment lines, eg
> 
> 
> # hello \
>   there
> 
> which one might guess would be possible according to the man page. (Though
> it does say "In general", so maybe we could add "(not in comment lines)")
> 
> Thoughts?

Personally I think that "continued comments" are bogus and _dangerous_.

A backslash in a comment is just a backslash.  It has no meaning,
special or otherwise.

After all that's all the manual promises:

COMMENTS
     Comments begin with a hash (`#') character, anywhere but in a shell com-
     mand line, and continue to the end of the line.


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