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Re: backslash whitespace newline
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- Cc: howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com (Howard Hinnant), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:07:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
- References: <200510260145.j9Q1j9Tp028820@earth.phy.uc.edu>
On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
Does that really matter?
gcc is free to ignore users, existing code, porting problems from
other platforms and other C implementations, if we so choose. I'm
not used to writing such factors off wholesale. I tend to think a
balance is better weighing all the different factors. On one hand,
we have ascii line art in documentation, on the other hand, we have
this esthetic beauty. Existing, otherwise portable code against,
confusing a user that is trying to do cut and paste programming on
terminal emulators running curses packages that break cut-n-paste
that can be themselves fixed, to fix not just gcc cut-n-paste
programming, but all cut-n-pasting they might do.
Absent users, absent porting otherwise portable code, absent other
implementations, I'd stick with the esthetics.