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Re: backslash whitespace newline
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:14:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
- References: <1130417988.8375.30.camel@linux.site>
Daniel Berlin wrote:
Which is invariably why it has generated so much discussion.
Surely everyone is familiar with Parkinson's second law (time
spent discussing an issue is inversely proportional to its
importance)
I believe every opinion anyone could ever have about this issue has been
put forth, and nobody on either side has been convinced of anything,
other than that the other side just doesn't get it.
Well the purpose of the discussion here is precisely to see
if there is a consensus for change. I think everyone understands
the issue perfectly well on each side, but the answer is clearly
no, there is no consensus for changing things.
At this point, i believe everyone should just shut up (since nobody is
offering anything new *at all*), someone posts a patch, and if someone
with approriate privileges wants to approve it, do so, or else reject
it, and the losers go off and steam over this until lunch.
Well the thread is clear enough, with the exception of the
odd subject line you just introduced (it really is better
not to do this), so it is easy enough for anyone to suppress
the thread if they want to
If you still hold a grudge next year, you can find someone to burn in
effigy at the next GCC Summit.