On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 18.12.2020 um 01:23 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>>> We already recognize a trailing comma as calling for line
>>> continuation so we should be able to do the same for semicolon quite
>>> easily. Can anyone think of a case where that could break things?
>>
>> Not me!
Wild speculation: What about a "!" shell command line in a gretl script?
But I guess the gretl parser then doesn't handle that anyway. Basically
the same thing applies to foreign blocks, of course.
>
> Nor me, so it's now in git on a trial basis.
>
thanks!
Oops, sorry, trial over! I forgot about use of ';' to indicate no
change in a sample limit, as in
smpl 2005:1 ;
Arguably '.' might be better in that context, but it's too late.
Allin