From: "Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:59:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oe9bjgd0.fsf@Sean-ORourkes-Computer.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DrUE1-0004nh-Vo@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:19:33 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-10 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-08 14:16 Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw" Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 15:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-08 15:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 16:12 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-08 16:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 16:43 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-08 16:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 22:01 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-08 22:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-09 17:01 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09 17:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-10 17:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10 21:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-11 16:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-12 3:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09 5:22 ` Sean O'Rourke
2005-07-10 5:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09 8:02 ` Markus Gritsch
2005-07-09 9:16 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-09 16:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-09 16:49 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-10 5:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10 6:59 ` Sean O'Rourke [this message]
2005-07-10 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 5:35 ` Richard M. Stallman
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