Re: New escape method proposal

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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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