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Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ?

From Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ?
Date 2023-05-23 13:31 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> I asked for several reasons. Someone could find a usage that I am 
> not aware of or find a problem in the suggestion.
> But the reason I was more confident was because  I already did
> a research in windows headers and a implementation that parsed
> #include <windows.h> without problems. So "normal" use cases 
> were not affected.

Are you assuming that a test on Windows headers is sufficient to
demonstrate that such a change would not cause problems for *all
other C software*?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 05:19 -0700
  Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-05-22 16:30 +0100
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 11:14 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-05-22 21:46 +0200
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 13:06 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-05-22 22:15 +0100
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 15:10 -0700
          Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 15:56 -0700
            Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 17:45 -0700
              Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 17:47 -0700
                Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2023-05-23 01:24 -0700
                Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 03:59 -0700
                Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2023-05-23 16:51 +0100
                Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 10:40 -0700
                Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 11:07 -0700
                Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 13:31 -0700
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 11:29 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-05-22 22:18 +0100
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-07-20 09:14 -0700
  Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-05-22 17:31 +0200
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 11:17 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-05-22 21:52 +0200
  Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2023-05-22 09:10 -0700
  Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-22 19:10 +0000
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 12:25 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-05-22 21:58 +0200
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 13:21 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-05-22 20:15 +0000
  Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-05-22 15:12 -0700
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-05-23 06:57 +0000
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 00:13 -0700
  Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 20:40 -0400
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-05-24 02:05 +0100
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 19:07 -0700
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 19:09 -0700
          Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2023-05-24 12:07 -0400
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 19:34 -0700
      Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 22:32 -0400
        Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 19:44 -0700
    Re: deprecate backslash-newline (line continuation) ? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2023-05-23 19:08 -0700

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