It appears very intentional (preprocessor.h).
/ Martin Nilsson (saturator)
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2003-09-21 23:18: Subject: Re: wish: string with other quoting then \
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:05:06PM +0200, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
#! is special at the beginning of the first line, but having a string
Not at all. Just checked. It works exactly like // anywhere (at least in 7.4). May be this isn't intentional, but... :)
Regards, /Al
/ Brevbäraren