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Think what happens when you break a line comment (or a string, in languages where it can't span several lines). And that's an easy example at that.


What happens? Nothing as far as I'm aware. The code is still one line.


> Because making the line wrapping nice requires deep syntax-aware editor integration.

'nice' is the key word here




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