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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, 1 May 2010 09:05:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19419.53963.159533.473234@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100424221451.58623029@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"?

> The latter. I'd use the former if the subclauses were longer.

Pushed.

Ulrich



      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-01  7:05 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
2010-04-24 21:14     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-05-01  7:05       ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]

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