Concerning Constant, literally from the v2 spec: syntax = "syntax" "=" quote "proto2" quote ";"
Do I read that correctly you can expect either 'proto2' or "proto2", but never 'proto2" nor "proto2' ? If accurate, that just seems to me to be lazy spec authorship... Thanks! On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:07 PM Michael Powell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am writing a parser for the Proto language specification starting > with v2. I need a little help interpreting one of the lines if you > please: > > In the "String literals" section, what does this mean: > > charValue = hexEscape | octEscape | charEscape | /[^\0\n\\]/ > > Specifically, the trailing list of character soup? I want to say that > there are escaped characters in the sequence? Or am I to take that > string literally? Or notwithstanding the enclosing forward slashes? > > Thanks much in advance! > > Best regards, > > Michael Powell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
