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JBiserkov on Aug 29, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenCL "Hello World"

New drugs may be required so programmers won't notice the monstrosities going on.

What's the deal with const char *KernelSource = HUGE_MULTILINE_STRING_WITH_EXPLICIT_\n ???

Its worse than SQL statements embedded inside GUI event handlers.

ncarlson on Aug 29, 2009 | [–]

It's very similar to OpenGL actually. I can't defend their choice of syntax, but at least they're consistant.

wlievens on Aug 31, 2009 | [–]

That depends on the language bindings, I guess. In a language with first class expression trees (like s-expressions) you could do this cleanly.

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