[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39418] new parser gives syntax error

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #39418 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This change was intentional.  If you want to use continuations inside
character strings now, they have to be a backslash followed immediately by a
newline character, and you have to be using double-quoted strings.  Completely
eliminating continuations inside single-quoted strings was done to improve
Matlab compatibility.

OTOH, maybe this change is too abrupt, at least for the double-quoted strings
(for single quoted strings, we have the excuse of fixing a Matlab
compatibility bug).  So how about this change:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/bc12849bb6cc

With it there will be a warning for these continuation markers.  You can
disable it with "warning off Octave:deprecated-syntax" or you can fix the code
to use backslash continuation markers.

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