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Article #5089Re: The \c escape
From: Colin Plumb
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 04:46
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 04:46
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I'd like to endorse this proposal. It has practical value, it breaks nothing, and is not terribly hard to implement. This would also be useful in long character constants, where I don't think string pasting is allowed. I would prefer '\ ' to '\c', since a non-alphanumeric character better indicates the magicness of the escape, and ' ' is as close to the "nothing" meaning of the escape as printable ASCII can get. Again, it is a useful, trivial change. I shall certainly hack it into the next C compiler I get. -- -Colin (plumbc@admin.ogc.edu, posting from a friend's account)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!littlei!ogcvax!plumbc From: plumbc@admin.ogc.edu (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: The \c escape Summary: YES Message-ID: <1719@ogcvax.ogc.edu> Date: 20 Jun 88 04:46:14 GMT References: <haddock.4604> Sender: roginski@ogcvax.ogc.edu Reply-To: plumbc@admin.ogc.edu (Colin Plumb) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 14