From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sean O'Rourke" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:59:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: <42CE8ADB.2000007@student.lu.se> <42CF847F.6000206@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <85wto0baqg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42CFFB40.1060509@student.lu.se> <85fyun2acv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120978870 5165 80.91.229.2 (10 Jul 2005 07:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 09:01:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrVo9-0002hc-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrVpe-0005Wt-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrVoq-0005Vu-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DrVom-0005US-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrVom-0005U8-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.56] (helo=mailbox4.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DrVuK-00045C-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.ucsd.edu (smtp-a.ucsd.edu [132.239.1.49]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6A6xt2r095409 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Sean-ORourkes-Computer.local ([128.54.220.172]) by smtp.ucsd.edu (8.12.10/8.9.3) with ESMTP id j6A6xsTg013008 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:19:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Trusted relay host); processed by UCSD_GL-v1.2 on mailbox4.ucsd.edu; Sat, 09 July 2005 23:59:55 -0700 (PDT) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 94300 j6A6xt2r095409 mailbox4.ucsd.edu) 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:40717 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40717 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > No. There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter. The 4 > before the H is a character count. And H stands for "Hollerith code", > the punch card predecessor of "ASCII code". > > Another advantage of 4H^.*\n is that you can join the 4H club. > > However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed > backwards. Yes, but there are 4HclubH4s for every taste. Imagine trying to explain that design decision to someone in 10 years... /s