Lars Hansen wrote: >>> The character sequence BACKSLASH <lineterminator> (where >>> <lineterminator> will be one of the characters LF, LS, or PS) is >>> removed from string literals delimited by either single or triple >>> SINGLEQUOTE or DOUBLEQUOTE characters. (Triple-quoting is >> defined in >>> [5].) >> This states that: >> >> "abc\\ >> tde" >> >> evaluates to the string "abc<tab>de". >> >> Is this really what we want? I'd find such nested escape >> sequences really strange. > > That looks like an illegal token to me, since the lexer will read "a" > "b" "c" "\" and then see an unescaped linefeed. > > Since the speclet states nothing about changing the way strings are > lexed, normal escape character processing should be in effect, and that > dictates that \\ is processed into \ independently of what follows.
It's what we all want. As written, that's not what it states. This isn't ready to go in until this bug is corrected. Waldemar _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss