On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:22 PM Michael Powell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Concerning Constant, literally from the v2 spec:

Rather, Syntax section, excuse me...

> 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

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