Re: resolving backslash newline whisky tango foxtrot: a proposal

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Per, please.  We've been through these ***exact*** interchanges before.
> You're now just reiterating the entire thread.  You aren't adding anything
> new,

I didn't see my specific proposal ('\\' follow by space is not a line
continuation *and* an improved -Wcomment defaults to on when no options
are given) in the previous discussion, though of course the issues and
possibilities were covered in excessive depth.

> just informing everyone which of the already-discussed possibilities your
> own personal opinion happens to be.  And you aren't even offering a patch.

You're missing an important point: I'm currently the only person listed
as cpplib maintainer.  I very much favored Zack's change to allow
trailing whitespace after a continuation character, and have just said
I'm willing to change this *if* we make -Wcomment the default. So even
though I have very little time to spend on gcc, my "personal opinion"
matters.  If my proposal is acceptable to Apple (and I haven't heard
them chime in about it), then we may have a solution that could be
acceptable to everybody, without Apple having to create (another) fork
in their code-base.  It means that Apple can produce a patch with
reasonable assurance that it will be approved (assuming we also get
consensus from the global write maintainers on the -Wcomment changes.)
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