Re^4: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO stuff

The classic solution of this problem was invented in FORTRAN in early 50 -- it is a backslash at the end of the line.

Fortran didn't have a release until 1957 so not early 50s. Fortran prior to F90 used a continuation character at the start (column 6) of the subsequent line not the end of the previous line. The continuation character in Fortran has never been specified as a backslash. Perhaps you meant some other language?

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Re^5: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO stuff by likbez (Sexton) on Sep 11, 2020 at 01:28 UTC
Yes, the first FORTRAN compiler was delivered in April 1957. I was wrong, sorry about it. Still the idea of continuation symbol belongs to FORTRAN, although the solution was different then the one I mentioned.	[reply]