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Re: No more multiline string constants
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: No more multiline string constants
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:40:43 +0200
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <20010707012336.A16DDF2B5C@nile.gnat.com>
dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<Hah ! No concensus of course. "If we make it precise than different
> vendors won't implement different implementations of this" vs. "this is
> obsolete, dammit - it's supposed to go away".
> >>
>
> The second quoted attitude here certainly smells of "we need to get rid
> of this feature becase I don't like it", rather than "we need to get rid
> of this because of <clear technical advantage inserted here>"
Well, the funny thing was this was about _obsoleted_ features (perhaps
my text wasn't too clear on that) - IOW, that discussion was done 6
years ago, when the committee decided that these features were no longer
obsolescent, but obsolete ...
> Of course having a lack of precision in obsolescent features is inexcusable.
Definitely.
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