MSVC was complaining about the latter.  My solution was:

   cout << "say\n\
what?\n\
";

Jonathan Polley

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 11:21 PM, Cameron Moore wrote:

> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis L. Olson) [2002.05.16 23:06]:
>> Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.7/FlightGear/src/Main
>> In directory seneca:/tmp/cvs-serv26528/src/Main
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>      options.cxx
>> Log Message:
>> Bernie Bright:
>> To make MSVC happy it appears we need backslashes on string literals
>> spanning multiple lines.
> <snip/>
>
> Can we get a second opinion on the changes in this file?  Why on earth
> does MSVC bark about this:
>
>   cout << "say" << endl
>        << "what?!" << endl;
>
> I can understand this being a problem:
>
>   cout << "say
> what?!
> ";
>
> because of the linefeeds possibly being unix linefeeds, but how is the
> first example broken?  I'm baffled...
> --
> Cameron Moore
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> \  "Tell me about some of the people who were here last year".    /
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