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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:12:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19411.24230.436665.637710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100424220035.132c0388@snowmobile>

>>>>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>> + A quoted string may be continued over multiple physical
>> lines by a simple newline or a backslash-escaped newline.

> That needs an 'either'.

Hm, which variant is better:
"either by a ... or by a" or "by either a ... or a"?

Ulrich



  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-24 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-24 20:58 [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings Ulrich Mueller
2010-04-24 21:00 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-24 21:12   ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2010-04-24 21:14     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-05-01  7:05       ` Ulrich Mueller

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