plpgsql commenting broken?

After quite a few hours of poring over my latest plpgsql dabbling, i found the error that caused import to barf, and I was a bit surprised, since the error was caused by a single apostrophe in a comment line

-- check if the row isn't available
[SQL thingie]

of course, i could avoid the problem by rewriting my comments to

-- check if the row is available
[SQL thingie]

but it seems to me, that commenting a line should cause the parser to ignore *everything* until the next newline?

Yes, this has bitten me before, particularly in awk script where the
script is single-quoted. I don't know a good solution for this.

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