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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:46:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> kumarchi AT comcast DOT net wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:38 PM:
> > what was the reason for dropping the support?
> > ( I have to now fix few lines of code!!)
>
> It is not ANSI compatible and therefore not portable.
>
In case you didn't know, ANSI defined string literal concatination:

"This is "
	"one sentence."

is the same as:

"This is one sentence."

Cheers.

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444

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