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Re: Guile docstrings---should Guile code be ANSI C compatible?
"Greg J. Badros" wrote:
>
> > "This is a docstring that I wrote "
> > "just for the sake of example."
>
> Don't legacy C compilers have problems with this (even more so than \n\
> separators)?
Only pre-ANSI compilers might have trouble with this, and that
doesn't really concern me.
> > I don't think that's too much of a pain to deal with.
>
> For humans it's still a pain, too, and probably no better than just
> newline separators for portability.
For me at least it's easier to type a quote than \n\, and more legible
too. Both methods are equally ANSI-compliant.
- Maciej