Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 22:18:13 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <87o7mcawve.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: <7ad3c6f6-e8f1-4482-8e06-4f4e85ba32f3n@googlegroups.com> <875y8kcrj8.fsf@bsb.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="42b399766ab4854c8d93864eec0e32da"; logging-data="2393511"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19+jHda1VhW7vhzpIDNsEARIOJDm7ys38E=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3aIfR7gtK1VrSaL48hXKhvdLl/c= sha1:edBJtN+3F0Y5EGU4tTaJStnRKEQ= X-BSB-Auth: 1.1014dc15513191d95cd4.20230522221813BST.87o7mcawve.fsf@bsb.me.uk Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:170325 Thiago Adams writes: > On Monday, May 22, 2023 at 12:30:52 PM UTC-3, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >>How much code will break if this changes? > > If we don't break code that means we allow silly things inside > preprocessor directives. Yes. The PP was always a hack. Yet it was a superb example of an effective engineering compromise at the time. And C lives by being stable. The committee seems to be less conservative that in the past, and the worries me. -- Ben.