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[Werner Almesberger <werner@...>]

Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I just committed some internationalization string macro fixes that
> caused Visual C++ to choke on code that had long strings split for code
> formatting purposes. GCC has no problem compiling _( "A string split "
> "for code indentation purposes" ) but Visual C++ 8 will complain.

Hmm, but why does it dislike it ? According to Stroustrup C++ 2nd Ed., 
r.2.5.4, this is a perfectly valid construct.

Could the problem perhaps be somewhere in the macros and not in the
compiler itself ? Having to fall back to backslashes would seem to
be quite an anachronism.

- Werner