I stand corrected - repeated underscores are allowed - but Josh's
example reminded me of the state of affair with raw strings.
Maurizio
On 26/02/18 22:57, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
At least there were other cases were we found different trade off
between expressiveness and practicality - s
Of course - delimiters is not part of the string length - I see now why
you can have (in theory) unbound prefix/suffix.
Personally, I find the argument - "because you can have unlimited-length
identifiers" not a great fit. From a lexer writer perspective, I can see
that it is used as a candida
On Feb 26, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore
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> On 26/02/18 20:17, John Rose wrote:
>> Any *finite choice* of end-quotes has the same problem, with
>> a non-zero probability that decreases (but does not vanish)
>> with the number of available end-quotes. The only way to
>> break out
Why introduce an artificial limit? Identifiers don’t have a limit. 3.8.
Identifiers An identifier is an unlimited-length sequence of Java letters and
Java digits, the first of which must be a Java letter.
— Jim
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 5:29 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore
> wrote:
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> On 26/02/18
On 26/02/18 20:17, John Rose wrote:
Any*finite choice* of end-quotes has the same problem, with
a non-zero probability that decreases (but does not vanish)
with the number of available end-quotes. The only way to
break out of the box is to allow the user an unlimited range
of successively "st
On Feb 26, 2018, at 10:43 AM, Alex Buckley wrote:
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> On 2/25/2018 4:19 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
>> I'm late in the game but why not using the same system as Perl, PHP,
>> Ruby to solve the Lts [1], i.e
>> you have a sequence that says this is the starts of a raw string (%Q,
>> qq, m) then a charact
On 2/25/2018 4:19 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
I'm late in the game but why not using the same system as Perl, PHP,
Ruby to solve the Lts [1], i.e
you have a sequence that says this is the starts of a raw string (%Q,
qq, m) then a character (in a predefined list), the raw string and at
the end of the ra
