Re: errata/485: Multi-line string literals?

From: Shalom Bresticker (Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 07:30:00 PDT

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    The following reply was made to PR errata/485; it has been noted by GNATS.

    From: Shalom Bresticker <Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com>
    To: Steven Sharp <sharp@cadence.com>
    Cc: etf-bugs@boyd.com
    Subject: Re: errata/485: Multi-line string literals?
    Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:15:28 +0300

     Steven Sharp wrote:
     
    > In NC-Verilog at least, this is not a string continuation. Rather, the
    > backslash has escaped the newline, so that it is treated as a character
    > of the string rather than its normal role of terminating the line. The
    > result has a newline embedded in the string. Note that this is not an
    > important capability, since you could get the same effect by putting \n
    > in the string.
     
     And VCS does the same thing.
     That is, you get an embedded newline, not just a continuation.
     This is different from what we talked about earlier,
     and different from the example below.
     
     Shalom
     
     
    > BTW, it is possible to get the desired effect using an explicit concatenation:
    >
    > $display
    > (
    > {"Humpty Dumpty sat on a ",
    > "wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall."}
    > )
     
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