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Re: Multi line string literals are deprecated considered bad
- To: ak at suse dot de, bernds at redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Multi line string literals are deprecated considered bad
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:37:04 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: carlo at alinoe dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com
<<Err, isn't the point of deprecating (and later on removing) extensions to
make the compiler _simpler_? Adding complexity like this seems like
entirely the wrong thing to do.
>>
Only partly, the more important reason is in keeping the language clean,
and avoiding unnecessary non-standard behavior (no one objects to worth
while extensions, but this one did not seem to meet that criterion!)