From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Ada has no continual line(s) ??
Date: 31 May 2002 12:51:26 -0700
Date: 2002-05-31T12:51:26-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yecbsawnlj5.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3cf737bf.2962249@news.demon.co.uk
john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) writes:
> On Fri, 31 May 2002 08:27:38 GMT,
> john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote:
> >On Thu, 30 May 2002 17:25:24 -0400, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
> >wrote:
[...]
> >>And C, and C++.
> >
> >Eh? That's a new one on me - can you explain?
>
> Macro definitions of course (doh!) - any others?
C's '\' line continuation character can be used anywhere, even in the
middle of a token. It's most commonly used in long macro definitions
because that's probably the only place where it's really needed.
--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-30 16:20 Ada has no continual line(s) ?? hongxun lee
2002-05-30 16:26 ` John McCabe
2002-05-30 17:41 ` hongxun lee
2002-05-30 18:07 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-31 7:53 ` Poul-Erik Andreasen
2002-05-31 8:25 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 15:24 ` Darren New
2002-05-31 8:43 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 16:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-30 18:15 ` Mark Biggar
2002-05-30 18:28 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-30 18:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-05-30 20:18 ` John R. Strohm
2002-05-30 19:13 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-30 20:17 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-30 21:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-30 23:14 ` Darren New
2002-05-31 8:27 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 8:44 ` John McCabe
2002-05-31 19:51 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2002-05-31 9:03 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-05-31 13:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-31 16:56 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-31 8:26 ` John McCabe
2002-05-30 21:48 ` chris.danx
2002-05-31 3:30 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-31 13:01 ` chris.danx
[not found] ` <ad6b5t$69t$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
2002-05-31 14:50 ` Robert Dewar
2002-06-11 21:38 ` Keith Thompson
2002-06-12 23:32 ` David Brown
2002-06-13 2:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-13 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
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2002-06-13 13:17 Grein, Christoph
2002-06-13 14:02 ` Stephen Leake
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