Date: Mon Mar 19 2007 - 02:41:17 PDT
Mantis 1064, which started as a question about 1364, asks what is the behavior of $display ( "Humpty Dumpty sat on a \ wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." ); Is it legal, and if so, what is the behavior? Regardless of 1364, 1800 says in 3.6: A string literal must be contained in a single line unless the new line is immediately preceded by a \ (back slash). In this case, the back slash and the new line are ignored. That is, it is legal and should print Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. However, in practice, as mentioned in 1064, and in the tools I have seen, what gets printed is Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. So either all those tools are in error, or we should change 1800 to accommodate the de-facto behavior. Thanks, Shalom Shalom Bresticker Intel Jerusalem LAD DA +972 2 589-6852 +972 54 721-1033 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
