From: Martin Str|mberg Message-Id: <200206081838.g58Ic4A27084@speedy.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: Patches for building with gcc 3.1 - tests chunk In-Reply-To: <3D020C33.E455B6D6@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> "from Richard Dawe at Jun 8, 2002 02:52:51 pm" To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 20:38:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL78 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk According to Richard Dawe: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > + res = system ("djecho" > > > +" William Safire's Rules for Writers:" > > > +"" > > > +"Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used." > > > > It is IMHO better to leave the original text as a single string, and > > instead add \n\ at the end of each line. Why is that so? (Just curious and I can't understand why that'd be better.) Right, MartinS