Comments ending in \ cause the next line of uncommented code to be ignored

Hello,

I ran into a bit of a headscratcher today when moving a commented line changed the output of my fractal formula. I eventually figured out that I had two comments, the first of which was a line ending in \ (the continuation character), and any line following a comment which ends with \ is not executed.

While this kind of makes sense when thinking about it (i.e. the current command continues in the next line) it is counterintuitive to have this happen for comments. I have some suggestions:

1. make the \ char not work in comments
2. mark the following line as comment too
3. like 1, but add some way of making multi-line comments, unless there already is one.

best regards,
Phillip

I have noticed something similar. The following does not work right:

x = sin(x)   \   ; comment
      + cos(x)

The compiler complains that \ is an invalid character.

That last error is correct, the backslash is invalid unless at the end of a line, or in a comment.

The behavior with comments is caused by the fact that the backslash is handled at a lower level so it concatenates anything. I believe it is best to leave this just as it has always been.

I think the behavior to consume a line of actual code when used at the end of a comment is kind of confusing tbh, but that might be just me.

Then again, this is probably an issue that won't occur very often. I have been using UF for almost two decades before I found out the hard way, I guess most people will stay in the clear.

Correct, and it is possible that there are existing formulas that use this and we don't want to break them.