Re: Adjacent string literals

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.std.c
Subject	Re: Adjacent string literals
Date	2021-07-10 14:58 -0700
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
[...]
>> If the phrase "White-space characters separating tokens are no longer
>> significant." were moved from the beginning of the description of phase
>> 7 to the beginning of the description phase 6, it would make the
>> insignificance of white space separating string literals perfectly
>> clear, and as far as I can see, would have no other effect
>
> The word "adjacent" doesn't alway mean touching.  There is another
> word for that, the word "adjoining".  Booking a hotel reservation
> for adjacent rooms is not the same as a reservation for adjoining
> rooms.

That's not entirely clear.  dictionary.com (not a definitive reference
but a convenient one) shows "adjoining" as one of the definitions of
"adjacent".

If I understand you correctly, if rooms 110 and 112 share a common wall,
perhaps with a door going between them, they're both adjacent and
adjoining, but if instead they're on opposide sides of the elevator
they're adjacent but not adjoining.  Is that what you meant?  I'm not
sure I'd call them "adjacent" in that case.

A footnote on "Adjacent string literals are concatenated" saying that
two string literals are adjacent if they're adjoining or separated only
by white-space characters would clear this up.  Moving "White-space
characters separating tokens are no longer significant." from the
beginning of phase 7 to the beginning of phase 6 would also be a good
solution.

But given the clear examples, I wouldn't object to leaving it as it is.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
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Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-01-25 10:15 -0500
  Re: Adjacent string literals Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-01-26 12:22 +0000
    Re: Adjacent string literals Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com.invalid> - 2021-01-26 13:48 +0100
      Re: Adjacent string literals Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-01-26 13:05 -0800
      Re: Adjacent string literals Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-01-26 21:40 +0000
        Re: Adjacent string literals Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com.invalid> - 2021-01-28 09:53 +0100
          Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-01-28 05:45 -0500
    Re: Adjacent string literals Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-01-26 07:52 -0500
    Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-01-26 09:29 -0500
      Re: Adjacent string literals Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-01-26 21:46 +0000
        Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-01-26 18:28 -0500
          Re: Adjacent string literals Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-01-27 01:16 +0000
            Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-01-26 22:48 -0500
              Re: Adjacent string literals Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-01-27 15:46 +0000
                Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-01-27 11:20 -0500
                Re: Adjacent string literals Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-01-28 03:05 +0000
  Re: Adjacent string literals Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-07-10 08:49 -0700
    Re: Adjacent string literals Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-07-10 14:58 -0700
      Re: Adjacent string literals Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-07-22 10:29 -0700
    Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-07-11 11:41 -0700
      Re: Adjacent string literals Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-07-22 15:26 -0700
        Re: Adjacent string literals James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2021-07-22 17:29 -0700
          Re: Adjacent string literals Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-17 05:29 -0800

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