On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:25:45PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Be careful of semantics here. I'm not sure which languages do what,
> but I just checked Perl, and "\x{1234}" is equivalent to Python's
> "\u1234", not to "\x12\x34". This proposal is for the latter, which
> could be sneakily confusing to someone who also writes in Perl.
Is there anyone left who writes Perl :-)
(I know, I know, that's a terribly unfair comment and I am a very bad
man...)
Seriously though, I think Perl users have a lot of things to re-learn,
so I'm not worried about that. We already have a good way of writing a
four hex-code unicode code point using u escapes. But we don't have a
good way of writing a long sequence of control characters without a lot
of repetition of `\x \x \x \x...`.
--
Steven
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