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In article <r4g2c8lcrp.fsf@erawan.cognex.com> Michael Cook
<mcook@cognex.com> writes:

|> >>>>> "P" == "Paul D DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com> writes:

|>  P> Oh heck, I might as well throw this in. Why isn't there an escape for 
|>  P> escape? That is, why can't \e be defined as \x1B, since it's such a 
|>  P> common control character?

|> What would \e mean if the character set were not ASCII?

I was about to post the same thing, then it occured to me that this
argument is equally valid concerning \a or \v (or for that matter,
probably everything but \n).

The other control characters are defined in terms of their semantics,
and not the code.  I'm not sure how the standard could define the
semantics of escape; this may be the reason why it isn't there.

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