RE: ES4 draft last call: line continuation in string and regexliterals
OK. I'll make a brief annotation on the proposal page about left-to-right interpretation so that we can move on and say that we've accepted the proposal; when the grammar is later written up there should be no room for confusion about what the intent of this proposal was. --lars -Original Message- From: Waldemar Horwat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12. mars 2008 18:57 To: Jeff Dyer Cc: Lars Hansen; es4-discuss Discuss Subject: Re: ES4 draft last call: line continuation in string and regexliterals Jeff Dyer wrote: Waldemar, can you suggest a fix? The correct fix is to add the relevant productions to the lexer grammar. It's fairly straightforward in the string literal grammar. It's painful in the regexp grammar. Waldemar ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
Re: ES4 draft last call: line continuation in string and regexliterals
Jeff Dyer wrote: Waldemar, can you suggest a fix? The correct fix is to add the relevant productions to the lexer grammar. It's fairly straightforward in the string literal grammar. It's painful in the regexp grammar. Waldemar ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
RE: ES4 draft last call: line continuation in string and regexliterals
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:es4-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Waldemar Horwat Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:29 PM To: Lars Hansen Cc: es4-discuss Discuss Subject: Re: ES4 draft last call: line continuation in string and regexliterals 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 abctabde. 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, can you suggest a fix? Jd ___ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
