On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Sven Schreiber wrote: Actually, I can't imagine such a case. Maybe my imagination is lacking, but here's my reasoning. * Backslash indicates command continuation only if it is the last (non-white space) character on a line of hansl input. * The left-division operator can never be valid as the last character on a line of hansl, since it requires a right-hand operand. So, if you ever find yourself wanting to break a line in the middle of left-division you should be able to do so with two successive backslashes. (Admittedly I haven't tested this, but if by any chance it doesn't work that should be a fixable bug.) BTW it's not uncommon for backslash to do double-duty. E.g. in many languages "\\" parses out as: backslash 1, escape character; backslash 2, literal backslash. Allin