shell mode \ construct should or should not work with comments?

[Samuel Wales]

i want to do

  echo hi \
           there \
           # big \
           guy

but bash does not recognize such comments.  would be great if it could.

but in emacs land, shell mode in emacs 25, does think that \ at eol in
comments is significant wrt indentation.  shouldn't it follow bash?

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