From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <17492.29148.246942.842300@parhasard.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146508363 16146 80.91.229.2 (1 May 2006 18:32:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kehoea@parhasard.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 01 20:32:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FadC5-0000zq-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 20:32:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FadC5-0002Gw-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FadBo-0002BR-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FadBn-0002AE-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FadBn-0002A1-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FadFf-0007K4-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FadBn-0007Ny-5U; Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:07 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:04:53 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53739 Archived-At: > I think it would be better to put an explicit terminator into > the construct. Perhaps #. So you would write "\u123#As I walked" There is already the possibility to use `\ ' as a terminator. That is true. The worry is that people might forget and run the unicode constant together with the following text. People might not remember to use `\ ' when it is needed, if they usually don't need it. But it is no great disaster to make such an error--it will be obvious when you see the output. So perhaps there's no need to do anything to avoid the problem. One other question occurs to me. In the Unicode branch, doesn't \x do this job? If so, \u would be redundant once we merge in that code. It would have no lasting purpose.