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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Usage of \ in Ada
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:37:21 +0200
Date: 2006-08-24T10:37:21+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6gojce.g51.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156378961.270464.303590@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Adam Beneschan a �crit :
> It's probably to prevent stupid errors.  If you have a string literal
> with an LF in it, it's far more likely (using a fairly traditional
> representation of the source) that you've forgotten a closing quote
> than that you intended to put a linefeed in the literal.  And if the
> language did try to allow a line separator in a string literal (even if
> it were represented as something like \n in the representation)

And of course, if you really need an LF in a character string, just use 
Ada.Characters.Latin_1.LF ....

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21  8:03 Usage of \ in Ada Jerry
2006-08-21  8:11 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-08-21 19:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-08-21 20:25   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-22  2:47     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-08-22  7:42       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-22 18:13         ` Adam Beneschan
2006-08-23  8:35           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-23 17:31             ` Adam Beneschan
2006-08-23 20:25               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-24  0:22                 ` Adam Beneschan
2006-08-24  8:37                   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2006-08-24  9:53                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-24 12:15                       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-08-24 14:43                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-24 15:24                           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-08-24 17:16                       ` Adam Beneschan
2006-08-22 19:38         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-08-22 21:29           ` Keith Thompson
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