Re: No more multiline string constants

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:03:35PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> > Since this eliminates a documented feature, I'm asking for an opinion
> > as to whether it should go in 3.1 or whether the patch should be held
> > for 3.2.  Note that the CPP manual for 3.0 said "this will be removed
> > in 3.1" in no uncertain terms.
> 
> FWIW I think we should leave it to 3.2; or 1 year after 3.0.

OTOH if we roll snapshots from the 3.1 sources, and make this change now,
then more developers will see how it effects their code.  Maybe I'm being
overly optimistic on the number of conscientious GNU developers who try
running their stuff through snapshot compilers.


Phil

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