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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: New escape method proposal |
Date: | Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:38:48 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 |
Paul Smith wrote:
The current handling of backslashes is, IMO, really horrible and just confusing and not very useful. I'd love to get rid of it
We could get rid of it when the new quoting feature is used anywhere in the makefile. That wouldn't break existing makefiles. And we could deprecate its use in other circumstances, before removing it in some later version.
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