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Re: character and string escapes
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: character and string escapes |
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Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:52:03 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
> Why do strings use hex for unnamed control characters while
> characters use octal?
I don't know. Ludo might know more, from his work on the reader.
> Also, r6rs likes hex characters. Is that something that might be
> added to Guile?
Would that be the same as the \x... format that Guile uses in string
output? I don't see why not, if so.
Regards,
Neil