From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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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 |