Newline in constant string

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 29, 2000, "Dave Raggett" <dave_raggett@hotmail.com> wrote:

> warning in such case. e.g. "missing '\' in your constant string".

Why?  I think this usage is already blessed by ISO C89.

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