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Re: No more multiline string constants
- To: geoffk at geoffk dot org, per at bothner dot com
- Subject: Re: No more multiline string constants
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 10:08:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<Personally, I think it might be a good idea to deprecate them, but
a bad idea to actually remove support for them.
>>
I think that in practice this is a fairly useless approach. If something
is fully supported by deprecated, then it can be freely used in programs.
This makes it all the more difficult to remove later on. Unless there is
some very good argument for removing a feature (e.g. that it is impsosible
to provide some desired new feature without removing the old), the burden
for removing features is awfully high. In particular, it is not acceptable
to remove a feature simply because of some aesthetic feeling that it leaves
the language cleaner to do so.