From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O5mgo-0002mj-Dg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:15:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 260FBE084D; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC58E084D for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf23 with SMTP id 23so2037088wyf.40 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:15:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=5xScyp6u78RgiZcXBK/2MzL427ofhtaipLMwy+b1TXg=; b=NrXGlHw8x6oS/Ke/k2ROVCgGFqkiQ53rADl+4heDA1db1dHKP7mvZ6rRpwbGh6Eix0 kb8MUQCF0nl7qH2eBCEdRrAtwwLTKxC9/mlQ030oqi6tFNx4bV2eQijRNihwo/yMGy0r ZDN0uVGFSuEMAojylYJJwOnQwucMA9mRdQisQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=XuE58pVoskYNYpPdvs4AaH4udxn1ZRMikuRXj4dx6Mzsx3x7phRn3pcuLcla/rTTcE SbcOVsnR8BYbmrnzqnhmEiunlGYulz6B4st1z4zdSYiwYc1Wq1Eq/zx+TSzAtMaJ3PCI MpEpNIDyut9YSl6V22HD1bQYXtR+B+axW/cJk= Received: by 10.216.183.143 with SMTP id q15mr2361540wem.208.1272143700260; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowmobile ([92.24.196.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x14sm7147039wbs.0.2010.04.24.14.14.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:14:51 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: Ulrich Mueller Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] make.defaults: line wrapping in quoted strings Message-ID: <20100424221451.58623029@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <19411.24230.436665.637710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <19411.23423.301897.592905@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20100424220035.132c0388@snowmobile> <19411.24230.436665.637710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/zqW5EtwZAVehRQf1BLI4i7c"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a3065c3e-c860-446e-9dc5-dafc86eb9066 X-Archives-Hash: feb8b3c8ee22462274a695f6e83759f5 --Sig_/zqW5EtwZAVehRQf1BLI4i7c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:12:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller 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. >=20 > > That needs an 'either'. >=20 > 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/zqW5EtwZAVehRQf1BLI4i7c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvTX1EACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGDowCfcFO8Z3ro2bxEKsHAL831HKoy 9soAn3n3vnJu9wLBDgCZI8FELXf3CK62 =M2U7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/zqW5EtwZAVehRQf1BLI4i7c--