Editing Lexical analysis (section)

=== Line continuation ===
[[Line continuation]] is a feature of some languages where a newline is normally a statement terminator. Most often, ending a line with a backslash (immediately followed by a [[newline]]) results in the line being ''continued'' – the following line is ''joined'' to the prior line. This is generally done in the lexer: The backslash and newline are discarded, rather than the newline being tokenized. Examples include [[Bash (Unix shell)|bash]],<ref>''[https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html Bash Reference Manual]'', [https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Escape-Character 3.1.2.1 Escape Character]</ref> other shell scripts and Python.<ref name="3.6.4 Documentation">{{cite web|url=https://docs.python.org/|title=3.6.4 Documentation|website=docs.python.org}}</ref>