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Re: backslash whitespace newline

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, Howard Hinnant <howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:51:45 -0700
Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
References: <54875567-6ED9-44F2-A631-76C2E3E3B6DA@twcny.rr.com> <200510260022.j9Q0MCWW027243@earth.phy.uc.edu> <20051026004056.GL18194@synopsys.com>

On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Joe Buck wrote:

1) a C++ comment

But case 1 is the nasty one, as users think they can put anything
in a comment.  A backslash at the end is likely to be an accident,
since just starting the next line with a // is easy enough.

Be interesting to see the results of a grep on a large software base. Does anyone have ready access to, say a linux distro handy? Of all the hits I know about, none of them were an accident.

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