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Re: Multi line string literals are deprecated considered bad
Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> writes:
| Joe Buck wrote:-
|
| > > I think you cannot depricate it without giving an easily writable alternative
| > > to the assembler users (and sorry, your proposal is not easily usable).
| >
| > Agreed. New proposal: deprecate multiline strings EXCEPT in asm directives.
| > Since asm is a keyword, it's easy enough to have it flip a mode bit in the
| > lexer to disable the error or warning. Then we object to multiline
| > strings in all contexts except asm.
|
| This isn't a reasonable demand to put on CPP; either we deprecate
| multi-line strings or we keep them. CPP has no idea if it's in an asm
| construct, and nor should it.
Agreed.
[...]
| So, in view of the above, I would still like to deprecate them. However,
| if the mood really has swung sufficiently back towards the status quo,
| I would be willing to revert the patches.
I'd rather we deprecate them if its makes life easier for CPP.
-- Gaby
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