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Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts


On 04/22/10 06:37, Joel Brobecker wrote:

I know I'll be outvoted here but I I hate cluttering code with MS-DOS
workarounds.

Understood, and it's not obvious to me that you'll be outvoted. This is why I am asking for comments more than a review at this point. I would like to challenge the "workaround" term, though :-P. I much as I dislike Windows (and believe me, I really dislike this platform), I think that if we are going to support Windows,

That, then, is the fundamental question. Certainly, Windows support adds to code complexity, which is always a bad thing.


  we should support it
as a first class citizen.



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