From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:14:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100424221451.58623029@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19411.24230.436665.637710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:12:06 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> 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.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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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 [this message]
2010-05-01 7:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
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