Feature #4513
Updated by nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura) about 12 years ago
=begin In a few programming languages, the displayed or printed program can hide critical syntactic and/or semantic information. For example, in make(1) and Python, the difference between initial tabs and spaces can cause bugs that are not visually apparent. Ruby has a minor instance of this problem, in that spaces or tabs between a backslash and the EOL will prevent the line from being continued: >> a \ ?> = 2 => 2 >> b \ SyntaxError: compile error (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting $end from (irb):3 Could Ruby open up its syntax to allow any number of intervening spaces or tabs before the EOL? =end