On 12/05/2002 12:18 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 02:11 AM, James Mastros wrote:
On 12/04/2002 3:21 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
\x and \o are then just shortcuts.
Can we please also have \0 as a shortcut for \0x0?
\0 in addition to \x, meaning the same thing? I
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:18:21AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
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: On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 02:11 AM, James Mastros wrote:
:
: >On 12/04/2002 3:21 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
: >>\x and \o are then just shortcuts.
: >Can we please also have \0 as a shortcut for \0x0?
:
: \0 in addition to
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 02:11 AM, James Mastros wrote:
On 12/04/2002 3:21 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
\x and \o are then just shortcuts.
Can we please also have \0 as a shortcut for \0x0?
\0 in addition to \x, meaning the same thing? I think that would get
us back to where we were wit
On 12/04/2002 3:21 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:38:35AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: We still need to verify whether we can have, in qq strings:
:
:\033 - octal (p5; deprecated but allowed in p6?)
I think it's disallowed.
Thank the many gods ... or One True
Larry wrote:
: But I think we'd definitely like to introduce \d.
Can't, unless we change \d to in regexen.
Which we ought to be very wary of, given how very frequently it's
used in regexes.
Damian
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:38:35AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: We still need to verify whether we can have, in qq strings:
:
:\033 - octal (p5; deprecated but allowed in p6?)
I think it's disallowed.
:\o33 - octal (p5)
:\x1b - hex (p5)
:\d12
"Michael Lazzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Note that \b conflicts with backspace. I'd rather keep backspace than
> binary, personally; I have yet to feel the need to call out a char in
> binary. :-) Or we can make it dependent on the trailing digits, or
> require the brackets, or require back
