Strange behavior of plot

General Usage
1

I noticed a very strange behavior of comment strings followed by the semi-colon. Consider the simple program:

using Plots
plot(1:10, 1:10, c=:blue)
#

This will create a plot as expected. However, if I change the last line and create the following program:

using Plots
plot(1:10, 1:10, c=:blue)
# ;

the plot does not appear. So I would like to understand why a line that starts with the comment symbol # becomes a non-comment when the line ends in a semi-colon. I also wonder what other code constructs are affected by this. It is strange. Thank you for any help.

2

Linking related post.

3

Thanks. The link indicates a general behavior. The commenters do not admit it is a bug. It is hard to believe that this was not fixed. In my opinion, this behavior should be explained in the Julia documentation and justified if indeed it is not a bug! Thank you.

4

it’s fixed:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/43374

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