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Re: Escape syntax in docstrings
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Chen Zhaoyang |
Subject: |
Re: Escape syntax in docstrings |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:32:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, this was changed recently, but I feel vindicated by your report: "\x"
> never
> meant what the author thought it did (or at least what I think the author
> thought it did): it is a hex escape without digits and used to be equivalent
> to
> "\000", yielding the control character NUL. Run `C-h f slash-in-docstring` in
> Emacs 29 or older and see for yourself.
Thank you for you clarification! I totally did not know about the fact
that "\x" means NUL in docstrings.
I do agree that using the slash to represent λ in docstring is not so
good to begin with.
>> (defun agda-input-compose (f g)
>> "\x -> concatMap F (G x)"
>
> Good catch. Would you tell the Agdas about it?
Yeah, I am grepping for cases like this and will submit a patch to them soon.
>> Can we document this change of behavior?
>
> Will do.
Cool, thank you again!
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Chen Zhaoyang
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