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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:12:06 +0200
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings
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>>>>> 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