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One of the world's largest hardware companies uses the line continuation feature to help make stuff you've almost certainly used today. Whether that is the bes
by williadc 7y ago
One of the world's largest hardware companies uses the line continuation feature to help make stuff you've almost certainly used today.
Whether that is the best way to solve their problem is another story, but that feature does get used.
- lanstin 7y agoAnd the nice thing about TCL as a language is there's just like 3 or 4 rules to remember and then you can embed the parser in your head. # is a command that discards all its arguments. So it's in the normal flow of syntax, so line continuation works. It's odd to see but easy to reason about after you are used to it.