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 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 12:51:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!news-feeds.jump.net!news20!not-for-mail Sender: kst@king.cts.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada has no continual line(s) ?? References: <3cf652a0.31278796@news.demon.co.uk> <61F3D95684C39416.22460EE382CEAB92.C10CD01C79B28381@lp.airnews.net> <3CF698C4.4080401@mail.com> <3cf733dd.1968350@news.demon.co.uk> <3cf737bf.2962249@news.demon.co.uk> From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Date: 31 May 2002 12:51:26 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.68.192.180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@jump.net X-Trace: news20 1022874592 209.68.192.180 (Fri, 31 May 2002 14:49:52 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:49:52 CDT Organization: Jump.Net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25115 Date: 2002-05-31T12:51:26-07:00 List-Id: 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 > >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. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be"