From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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To: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
Cc: | gentoo-pms@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings | ||
Date: | Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:15:02 | ||
Message-Id: | 20100424221451.58623029@snowmobile | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings by Ulrich Mueller |
1 | On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:12:06 +0200 |
2 | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
3 | > >>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
4 | > >> + A quoted string may be continued over multiple physical |
5 | > >> lines by a simple newline or a backslash-escaped newline. |
6 | > |
7 | > > That needs an 'either'. |
8 | > |
9 | > Hm, which variant is better: |
10 | > "either by a ... or by a" or "by either a ... or a"? |
11 | |
12 | The latter. I'd use the former if the subclauses were longer. |
13 | |
14 | -- |
15 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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