Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 07:05:57
Message-Id: 19419.53963.159533.473234@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 >> >> + A quoted string may be continued over multiple physical
3 >> >> lines by a simple newline or a backslash-escaped newline.
4 >>
5 >> > That needs an 'either'.
6 >>
7 >> Hm, which variant is better:
8 >> "either by a ... or by a" or "by either a ... or a"?
9
10 > The latter. I'd use the former if the subclauses were longer.
11
12 Pushed.
13
14 Ulrich