Bug #18877: parse.y: escaped space inconsistently allowed after assignment

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x86_64-linux]
• Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN

[qnighy (Masaki Hara)]

The following source inconsistently parses:

x = \ 42

though this one not:

\ 42

nor:

x = \(tab) 42

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|982cda9a3e908c7ab49632c46f4b1e3c0219f9f2.

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[Bug #18877] Let lex_ctxt not to eat escaped whitespace