On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 12:46 PM Sven Schreiber
<sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Am 31.07.2022 um 18:38 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 10:59 AM Sven Schreiber
> <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think this is documented, or is it? Is this official and
>> reliably a part of the hansl syntax?
> The criterion for automatic line-continuation is actually that a line
> ends with a comma (outside of any comment, obviously).It's documented
> in the Introduction to the Gretl Command Reference.
Ah, OK, thanks. I had only seen the remark in ch. 3 of the main guide.
("Note that long commands in a script can be broken over two or more
lines, using backslash as a continuation character.")
I've added a note on that point to the Hansl Primer. It should
probably be mentioned in ch 3 of the main guide too.
Allin