On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:21 -0500, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> And it's wonderful that the C standard defines a character literal as
> so:
>
> char-literal:
> ' characters '
> characters:
> character
> characters character
>
> (or something like that)
>
> Question, then: why do we need wchar_t/Rune?
The definitions are (<> used to indicate non-terminals in the
grammar...):
(6.4.4.4) character-constant:
' <c-char-sequence> '
L' <c-char-sequence> '
(6.4.4.4) c-char-sequence:
<c-char>
<c-char-sequence> <c-char>
(6.4.4.4) c-char:
any member of the source character set except the single-quote ',
backslash \, or new-line character
<escape-sequence>
Steven Vormwald
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