Multiline statements error

[anonymous]

Any statement containing two consecutive underscores is an error.

Local $a = f (1) + f (2) + _
	_ ; Error here: unexpected underscore.
	f(3)

[Melba23]

What else would you expect to happen? A line continuation operator is there to split long lines - adding other elements between the operator and the next section of the line will cause an error, as it would were the line to be continuous and the element inserted. Both Au3Check and AutoIt baulk at such a thing - correctly.

M23

[anonymous]

Right now I have to write it that way:

Local $a = f (1) + f (2) _
	+ _
	f (3)

Is that better?

Replying to Melba23:

What else would you expect to happen?

I expected the line continuation operator to do exactly what it says: continue lines. Why should the operator care about anything in the next line? Why should it care about anything except the next newline symbol? Some lines cannot be divided into multiple statements without changing the semantics. Parts of this line might need to be annotated to be useful later and should be grouped into blocks ((possibly generated) function, enumeration).
The current behavior is illogical and should be considered a bug.