Re: [ALACPP] GotW solutions out

[Kevin Scaldeferri <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:

> 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.

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that while the rest of the language is 
whitespace-insensitive, the preprocessor is not.

However, it doesn't seem to me like this is much of a win for string 
literals versus just letting it wrap over in your editor.  Readability 
isn't increased, since you still have to restart on the first column of 
the next line, and I'd be worried about editor auto-indentation 
screwing things up.  (Emacs seems to indent correctly in this case, but 
vim doesn't seem to.)


Kevin

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