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Re: "Local variables" and continuation lines
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: "Local variables" and continuation lines |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:09:05 -0700 (MST) |
I think a very elegant approach is to concatenate all "value" strings
for a variable. Variables can appear several times. All value strings
are collected and concatenated.
I think that is confusing, and inconvenient in a practical sense. It
would be much better to write
foo: bar\
quuxu
that write
foo: bar
foo: quux
for two reasons:
1. The former makes it clear what it means. The latter could mean
various different things and you can't guess which. It could just be
a mistake. Maybe quux overrides bar, or vice versa.
2. With the latter, you might accidentally put something in between
and it will still "work"
foo: bar
other: t
foo: quux
but it is a recipe for confusion.
What do others think?
- Re: "Local variables" and continuation lines,
Richard Stallman <=