Re: lost argument and doc string

[Jason Rumney]

Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:


> > Be careful that the following does the right thing:
> > 
> >     (defvar string-variable "String value" "\
> >     This is the documentation for a string variable.")
> > 
> > 
> > That seems like the only logical reason for the current convention.
> 
> But my point is that they are all eventually processed by
> `read_c_string_or_comment' later, which takes care of backslash

The backslash wasn't what I was concerned about. We need to make sure
that "String value" is not picked up as a documentation string in the
above case.  That is the only reason I can think of where the current
convention might be useful.


-- 
Jason Rumney