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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: newlines in string constants
Message-ID: <2502@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 21:01:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 21:01:30 1987
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In article <2810@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>I can write a pre-processer that allows me to have my multi-line
>strings, but I would like to believe there's a better reason than the
>one above for not allowing them in the language.

How about the fact that they look ugly?

I am quite happy that C does not allow this.  I don't expect everybody to
agree with me, but I don't expect to change my opinion, either.
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