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RE: backslash whitespace newline
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Neil Booth'" <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>,"'Howard Hinnant'" <howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:18:20 +0100
- Subject: RE: backslash whitespace newline
Neil Booth wrote:
> Howard Hinnant wrote:-
>
>> I've been reviewing the age-old issue of interpreting
>> <whitespace>*<newline> as the end-of-line indicator as is the current
>> practice with gcc.
>
> FWIW I support abandoning this behaviour too.
>
> Neil.
I would like it to be retained in at least one case: CRLF line endings
should still work, specifically backslash-CR-LF should be usable to indicate
a continued line. So how about having gcc accept
<cr>?<newline>
instead?
cheers,
DaveK
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