On 12/05/2002 12:18 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 02:11 AM, James Mastros wrote:
On 12/04/2002 3:21 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
\x and \o are then just shortcuts.
Can we please also have \0 as a shortcut for \0x0?
\0 in addition to \x, meaning the same thing? I think that would get
us back to where we were with octal, wouldn't it? I'm not real keen
on leading zero meaning anything, personally... :-P
You misinterpret. I meant \0 meaning the same as \c[NUL], IE the same
as chr(0), a null character. (I suppse I should have said \0x[0].)
Which means that the only way to get a string with a literal 0xFF
byte in it is with qq:u1[\xFF]? (Larry, I don't know that this has
been mentioned before: is that right?) chr:u1(0xFF) might do it too,
but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Hmm... does this matter?
Sorry. It does, in fact, not matter... momentarly stopped thinking in
terms of utf8 encoding being a completly transparent process.
