Neil Booth wrote: > Howard Hinnant wrote:- > >> I've been reviewing the age-old issue of interpreting >> <whitespace>*<newline> as the end-of-line indicator as is the current >> practice with gcc. > > FWIW I support abandoning this behaviour too. > > Neil.
I would like it to be retained in at least one case: CRLF line endings should still work, specifically backslash-CR-LF should be usable to indicate a continued line. So how about having gcc accept <cr>?<newline> instead? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....