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- From: James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Numeric literal formats
- Date: 20 Feb 96 05:50:07 GMT
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- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
- Message-ID: <9602191618.AA13420@lts.sel.alcatel.de>
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- X-Original-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 17:18:57 +0100
- In-Reply-To: Michael Cook's message of 19 Feb 96 02:30:07 GMT
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- Originator: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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- In article <r4g2c8lcrp.fsf@erawan.cognex.com> Michael Cook
- <mcook@cognex.com> writes:
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- |> >>>>> "P" == "Paul D DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com> writes:
-
- |> P> Oh heck, I might as well throw this in. Why isn't there an escape for
- |> P> escape? That is, why can't \e be defined as \x1B, since it's such a
- |> P> common control character?
-
- |> What would \e mean if the character set were not ASCII?
-
- I was about to post the same thing, then it occured to me that this
- argument is equally valid concerning \a or \v (or for that matter,
- probably everything but \n).
-
- The other control characters are defined in terms of their semantics,
- and not the code. I'm not sure how the standard could define the
- semantics of escape; this may be the reason why it isn't there.
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