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John Cowan (regarding Icon): > If you're worried about it, make sure all continued lines end in _, > that's all. This brings up a different point - sweet-expressions do *not* have a line-continuation capability, as it is currently defined. One *could* be easily added. One approach would be to interpret "\\" at the of a line as a line continuation; I even have a draft BNF construction that does that. We also dabbled with "." at the beginning of a line as meaning "this continues the previous line". But we've tried to *minimize* the number of mechanisms in the notation, and there didn't seem to be a strong use case. If the sub-components have structure you can just use indentation as intended, and if it's just a long list of items, (...) works just fine. IIRC, John Cowan was concerned that "\\" at the end of a line would be confusing, too. For the moment, I'll just document this as a design decision. If someone wants to argue for a continuation symbol, please post. --- David A. Wheeler