Reduce need of backslash

[John Roth]

"Duncan Booth" <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Nicolas Fleury <nid_oizo at yahoo.com_remove_the_> wrote in
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> > I was wondering if the need for \ could be reduce in the language.  For
> > example, could a line ending with = or + could be automaticly considered
> > incomplete?
>
> You very rarely need \ as it is. Any parenthesised expression may be split
> across lines without problems.

And you can parenthesize a surprisingly large number of places. One
that I learned just recently was that the entire operand string of the
print statement can be put into parenthesis.

John Roth
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> Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
> int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
> "\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?