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forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings Ray Blaak (11 Jul 2005 16:32 UTC)
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Re: forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings Michael Sperber (12 Jul 2005 13:55 UTC)
Re: forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings Matthew Flatt (12 Jul 2005 13:13 UTC)
Re: forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings Ray Blaak (13 Jul 2005 06:44 UTC)

Re: forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings Matthew Flatt 12 Jul 2005 13:13 UTC

At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:32:18 -0700, Ray Blaak wrote:
> So, will we be able to have strings like "\x41bc" be interpreted as
> "abc" or will it become an error?

It will be "Abc".

> Forcing it to be "\x41 bc" will become unbearably tedious and confusing
> to readers also used to programming in other languages.

I'm not sure where this suggest of delimiters comes from. In the
current SRFI, "\x41 bc" is the same as "A bc".

Matthew