Re: backslash whitespace newline

[Eric Christopher <echristo at apple dot com>]

On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:52 PM, 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.

I filed bugzilla 24531 about this.

Haven't heard Joseph weigh in on this issue, but here are the options  
that I see:

a) We enable the conditional warning for line continuation in a  
comment at all times
(just as we do for normal lines)

b) Change the preprocessor to remove the behavior and disable the  
continuation
if we have a \ followed by a space

c) Do nothing.

Option c will leave us with the current behavior that I don't believe  
I've heard
anyone want to keep (other than it's the current documented behavior).

I'll work up a patch for b since that's what Apple would like the  
most. I believe that
option a is needed at least.

This is, as Mr. Buck has noted, a regression from 2.95.

-eric