Re: cpplib: Start moving switch handling to front ends

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>]

Devang Patel wrote:

> Personally I do not have hard opinion about this, but I have not seen
> any guide-lines about use of special chars like '#' in warning names.
> 
> If everybody thinks, it is not OK then I will change it to
> -Wno-pound-warnings.
'scuse me, but over here pound is not the name of the #
char, 'cos that is a much better name for another character
which may or may not be rendered correctly as '£'
I know gcc is written in US english, but let's try not to
be confusing!

>From the jargon file:
	The pronunciation of # as `pound' is common in the U.S. but a
	bad idea; Commonwealth Hackish has its own, rather more apposite
	use of `pound sign' (confusingly, on British keyboards the pound
	graphic happens to replace #; thus Britishers sometimes call #
	on a U.S.-ASCII keyboard `pound', compounding the American error).
	The U.S. usage derives from an old-fashioned commercial practice
	of using a # suffix to tag pound weights on bills of lading. The
	character is usually pronounced `hash' outside the U.S. There
	are more culture wars over the correct pronunciation of this
	character than any other, which has led to the ha ha only serious
	suggestion that it be pronounced `shibboleth' (see Judges 12:6 in
	an Old Testament or Tanakh). 

nathan

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