From: David Wells Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 03:28:52 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Elaborate on the continuation line comment. X-Git-Tag: v8.4.0-rc2~46^2~3 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27ef1d6e5e34905726c10634fb8abede7701a775;p=dealii.git Elaborate on the continuation line comment. --- diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h b/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h index 9f37c091fe..d0c9db88e3 100644 --- a/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h +++ b/include/deal.II/base/parameter_handler.h @@ -1016,8 +1016,11 @@ namespace Patterns * * Comments starting with \# are skipped. * - * Continuation lines are allowed by means of the character \\, - * which must be the last character of the line. + * Continuation lines are allowed by means of the character \\, which + * must be the last character (aside from whitespace, which is ignored) of the + * line. When a line is a continuation (i.e., the previous line ended in a + * \\), then, unlike the default behavior of the C + * preprocessor, all whitespace at the beginning of the line is ignored. * * We propose to use the following scheme to name entries: start the first * word with a capital letter and use lowercase letters further on. The same