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: Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:34 -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 1146545158 11388 80.91.229.2 (2 May 2006 04:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 04:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 02 06:45:56 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 1Famlo-00069r-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 06:45:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Famln-0006wM-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FamlU-0006vz-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FamlT-0006vn-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FamlT-0006vi-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FamlY-0003zi-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FamlS-0000JB-He; Tue, 02 May 2006 00:45:34 -0400 Original-To: Oliver Scholz In-reply-to: (message from Oliver Scholz on Mon, 01 May 2006 21:03:45 +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:53762 Archived-At: > 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. There would still be a conceptual difference. \x refers to the internal representation of a character in Emacs, while \u refers to an abstract character. If \xabcd and \uabcd will forever be equivalent, I don't see much benefit in having syntax to indicate the conceptual difference.