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Re: No more multiline string constants
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: No more multiline string constants
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 06 Jul 2001 14:36:58 -0300
- Cc: geoffk at geoffk dot org, per at bothner dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20010706140831.37BABF2B5C@nile.gnat.com>
On Jul 6, 2001, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<Personally, I think it might be a good idea to deprecate them, but
> a bad idea to actually remove support for them.
>>>
> I think that in practice this is a fairly useless approach. If something
> is fully supported by deprecated, then it can be freely used in programs.
How about the deprecation warning sleep()ing for a number of seconds
that is increased on every release, or based on a number of months or
years since the feature was deprecated? :-) / 2
We could always support a flag to skip the sleep(), but it would be
off by default, so that using a deprecated feature grows increasingly
annoying over time, and people would tend to avoid it more and more.
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