From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!unc!tim Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: Re: C pet peeve - (nf) Article-I.D.: unc.4827 Posted: Thu Mar 24 16:38:44 1983 Received: Fri Mar 25 21:46:22 1983 References: uiucdcs.1758 About the C EOL terminator for strings: It should not be possible to have strings overlap lines, as you suggest. This would be hard to read, and has the potential to cause some really frustrating errors. The real problem is that C has no string operators. If you could use, say, the + operator to concatenate strings, then no one would ever have to split printf format strings. There is no reason for C not to have these. True, there are functions, but infix operators are far more readable than prefix function calls in most applications where you do a lot with strings (even for a Lisp hacker like myself); also, the compiler cannot evaluate constant string expressions at compile time if functions are used. Tim Maroney