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Re: No more multiline string constants
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Subject: Re: No more multiline string constants
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:23:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: aoliva at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, geoffk at geoffk dot org,per at bothner dot com
<<Hah ! No concensus of course. "If we make it precise than different
vendors won't implement different implementations of this" vs. "this is
obsolete, dammit - it's supposed to go away".
>>
The second quoted attitude here certainly smells of "we need to get rid
of this feature becase I don't like it", rather than "we need to get rid
of this because of <clear technical advantage inserted here>"
Of course having a lack of precision in obsolescent features is inexcusable.