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Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes

Posted Nov 1, 2009 23:05 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes by nye
Parent article: Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes

String concatenation in C is recent, it wasn't in K&R. And I doubt it will go away (it is way too useful, the previous way using '\' at the end of the line was bletcherous)

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Posted Nov 2, 2009 0:25 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Adjacent string concatenation via comments, e.g.

#define PASTE(a,b) a/**/b

PASTE("foo","bar")

was thankfully broken when cpp was defined in terms of tokens rather than
in terms of text-stream transformation. But that was C89...