# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1627471171 14400
# Node ID 6a39ac893c9da6946e12ee36f4a7e787c9bb1c94
# Parent  53de043ea5327230f3f37d25bb0f66fb6eea4931
note future change for backslash operator

* lex.ll ("\\"): Add comment explaining how to handle the backslash
operator once backslashes are no longer handled as line continuation
markers outside of character strings.

diff -r 53de043ea532 -r 6a39ac893c9d libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll
--- a/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll	Wed Jul 28 21:28:20 2021 +0200
+++ b/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll	Wed Jul 28 07:19:31 2021 -0400
@@ -1666,6 +1666,12 @@
 %}
 
 "\\" {
+    // FIXME: After backslash is no longer handled as a line
+    // continuation marker outside of character strings, this
+    // action may be replaced with
+    //
+    //   CMD_OR_OP ("\\", LEFTDIV, true);
+
     curr_lexer->lexer_debug ("\\");
 
     return curr_lexer->handle_op (LEFTDIV);