# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1389163211 18000
# Node ID 89e3601c33aa52c0d9de721abe09869e20311aa2
# Parent  9feb46ac68479f2cc39af70d09b563bbb419d0df# Parent  043ce378784948ff547e17a9db34a71032cfd31e
maint: Periodic merge of gui-release to default.

diff --git a/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll b/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll
--- a/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll
+++ b/libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll
@@ -2622,7 +2622,15 @@
     {
       comment_text = &yytxt[offset];
 
+      // finish_comment sets at_beginning_of_statement to true but
+      // that's not be correct if we are handling a continued
+      // statement.  Preserve the current state.
+
+      bool saved_bos = at_beginning_of_statement;
+
       finish_comment (octave_comment_elt::end_of_line);
+
+      at_beginning_of_statement = saved_bos;
     }
 
   decrement_promptflag ();
diff --git a/test/parser.tst b/test/parser.tst
--- a/test/parser.tst
+++ b/test/parser.tst
@@ -283,3 +283,7 @@
 %! xyz(1) = 1; xyz /= 1;
 %! assert (xyz, 1);
 
+%!test
+%! a = [97 ... % comment
+%!      'b'];
+%! assert (a, 'ab');