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Nick Maclaren <nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> However, be warned that trailing spaces and tabs disable it as a line
> continuation character.  

Actually, trailing spaces and tabs *can* disable it as a line continuation
character (but don't have to), for the reason you mention below:

> note that the standard does not define
> how non-trivial end-of-line indicators are represented.  

An implementation could well define the end-of-line indicator to be "an
arbitrary number of spaces followed by a newline", so code that has those
trailing tabs and spaces is still conforming.  Note that this is how
implementations on record-oriented architectures like IBM big iron get
around the lack of a newline character.

dave
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