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

Chris Moller
2010-04-22T11:54:54Z

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.
>
>