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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <1338@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 19:12:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.1338
Posted: Wed Oct  7 19:12:23 1987
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In article <2669@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>char *s = "This is
>not legal.";

I doubt that ANSI will bless this.  It makes it harder for the compiler to
resynchronize after a syntax error, and it duplicates existing functionality.
(Of course, a compiler is free to implement this as an extension.  I think the
Gnu cc might allow this notation.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint