| Christopher Smith on 18 May 2003 21:29:01 -0000 |
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| Re: [ALACPP] GotW solutions out |
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 14:23, Kevin Scaldeferri wrote: > Also, I'm trying to think why \ needs to function as a continuation > character in a language which isn't sensitive to whitespace. In fact > it seems like the _only_ function of it is to enable subtle bugs of the > single-line-comment-isn't variety. Well that one is easy. It's handy for really long string literals or macros. --Chris _______________________________________________ alacpp mailing list alacpp@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/alacpp