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Re: [Pika-dev] Dropping the \U+xxxx. syntax for unicode characters in st
From: |
Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Pika-dev] Dropping the \U+xxxx. syntax for unicode characters in strings |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:01:49 -0800 (PST) |
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> After having implemented the "\(...)" syntax for string embedding
> (where that whole substring gets replaced by the character represented
> by "#\..."), I'd like to recommend the "\U+xxxx." syntax for Unicode
> characters be dropped in favour of the above mentioned syntax --
> i.e. "\U+10A." would instead be written as "\(U+10A)".
> Rationale: reuse of character lexing code, less complicated logic
> (only one syntax for multi-character escapes), and less error prone
> syntax (I wouldn't have noticed the . in the \U+xxxx. syntax if
> someone had not pointed it out on srfi-50).
> Thougts?
I think you are exactly right. I will update the draft for "SRFI ?:
Scheme Characters as (Extended) Unicode Codepoints" accordingly.
-t