On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:34 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 28 November 2012 10:32, nalaginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > scheme@(guile-user)> (format #t "\033[32;31mhello\033[5m") > >> > >> Here, \0 is taken to mean #\nul, and then there are two #\3. > >> > >> IOW, there is no such syntax for octal escapes (info "(guile) String > >> Syntax"). > >> > >> What made you think otherwise? > >> > > > Now my question is, should we have octal-escapes? Is is impossible or > > not implemented yet? > > You can use two or four digit hex codes, “\xHH” and “\uHHHH”. Is it > useful to support octal on top of that?
Yes, I can use hex instead. But, why we couldn't provide octal? Or it needs to be done?
