Reduce need of backslash

[Duncan Booth]

Nicolas Fleury <nid_oizo at yahoo.com_remove_the_> wrote in 
news:h4Ycb.75236$PD3.4793080 at nnrp1.uunet.ca:

> 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.

-- 
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?