LC Server: shebang breaks tags?

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

 >> On 11 Feb 2020, at 6:10 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >>
 >> Can the merge function be extended to support scripts interleaved
 >> between blocks of non-code?
 >>
 >> e.g. this works in Server, and not in Merge:
 >>
 >>     <?lc if there is a file "something" then ?>
 >>     This is some non-code
 >>     <?lc else ?>
 >>     Some other non-code
 >>     <?lc end if ?>
 >
 > I suspect it could but might require merge to do two parses to execute
 > server style then execute merge style so in the end it might be better
 > to have a separate function. A way to just parse once and execute
 > multiple times like a regular script would be useful. Perhaps the
 > engine could maintain a stack of compiled server style scripts like it
 > does for regex. I’m not overly sure it adds a great deal to the
 > platform though. Probably use cases for this are better served my
 > multi-line string literals.

Like heredoc?

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17471

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