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
prev parent 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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