From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3796c9f26082a2b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-31 09:50:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!nyc.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool0900.news.uu.net!reader0902.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CF7A9F5.9050200@mail.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:51:01 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada has no continual line(s) ?? References: <3cf652a0.31278796@news.demon.co.uk> <3CF72C07.AB702A38@pea.dk> <3cf73717.2794688@news.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1022863851 reader2.ash.ops.us.uu.net 1678 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25100 Date: 2002-05-31T12:51:01-04:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: > In e.g. C it would have to be: > > printf("This is a message over more than one line " > "to illustrate that C don ignor newlines completely"); C and C++ do have a line continuation character, the \. Very early in compilation, a sequence of \ followed by newline is deleted, thereby joining lines. So the above could be written as printf("This is a message over more than one line \ to illustrate that C don ignor newlines completely");