Re: [Pspp-cvs] pspp/src/language/stats regression.q

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:37:12PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> I like to wrap long lines and to put two spaces between
>> sentences, so that this would become:
>> 
>>          gettext ("The dependent variable is equal to the independent "
>>                   "variable.  The least squares line is therefore "
>>                   "Y=X.  Standard errors and related statistics may "
>>                   "be meaningless."));
>
> Done. I didn't do it before because I assumed gettext would format the
> message for me. 

There are two different issues here.  The first is the length of
the line in the source file.  That's the only change that happens
above: when two C strings are juxtaposed, the C compiler
concatenates them (without inserting a new-line character or
anything else).

The second is how the message is wrapped from one line to another
when it is printed.  The PSPP output formatting routines take
care of that (usually fairly well).
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