OpenEuphoria

Re: Interpreter Mod We Can All Get Behind

• Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at ckle?te?.com> Nov 21, 2007
• 630 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> c.k.lester wrote:
> > Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > > And How about a line continuation symbol
> > > Example:
> > >   "This is a long string that I want to continue on the next line __
> > >    so I can just use the two underscores to continue it on this line"
> > Why would you want that? Euphoria already ignores line breaks in code
> > so you can do something like
> >    "This is a long string that I want to continue on the next line "
> >    & "so I can just use the two underscores to continue it on this line"
> So I can do this which I think is less confusing:
> 
> record("MyStructure", "__
>  item1 long    1       __ 
>  item2 pointer 1       __
>  rect STRUCT RECT      __
>  item3 byte   10
>  item4 uint    1       __
>  ") 
> 
> Underscores are only allowed inside of identifiers.
> If they are inside a string they would be ignored.

What is an "identifier?"

And you put them in a string in your example, so I still don't get it.