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From: plumbc@admin.ogc.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: The \c escape
Summary: YES
Message-ID: <1719@ogcvax.ogc.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 04:46:14 GMT
References: <haddock.4604>
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Reply-To: plumbc@admin.ogc.edu (Colin Plumb)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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I'd like to endorse this proposal.  It has practical value, it breaks
nothing, and is not terribly hard to implement.

This would also be useful in long character constants, where I don't
think string pasting is allowed.

I would prefer '\ ' to '\c', since a non-alphanumeric character better
indicates the magicness of the escape, and ' ' is as close to the
"nothing" meaning of the escape as printable ASCII can get.

Again, it is a useful, trivial change.  I shall certainly hack it
into the next C compiler I get.
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	-Colin (plumbc@admin.ogc.edu, posting from a friend's account)