Luke Palmer skribis 2005-02-22 11:40 (-0700):
Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that
octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should
0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does
\777 mean in a string
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:40:23AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that
: octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should
: 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does
: \777 mean
J == Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
J And for symmetry, can we get 0d and \d for decimal, for those cases
J where you want to be explicit?
in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea. it would be better
to require \0d. the others also need a base designator character so
decimals
Uri Guttman skribis 2005-02-22 14:41 (-0500):
in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea
In a rule, whitespace is a very good disambiguator.
it would be better to require \0d.
I think nullbyte-d is rather likely to occur.
why would we need 0d123 as a literal?
Symmetry.
0x10
On 2005-02-22 at 14:26:04, Juerd wrote:
I think \777 should be chr(777). As should \0d777, should you want to
document that it's really not octal. (Important mostly the first year
after the first release.)
I don't think you can assume it'll only be confusing for a year. For
one
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: Incidentally, will \o, \x, and the hypothetical \d still work without
: curlies for a certain number of digits but require curlies for larger
: numbers? I'd rather see consistency there.
Well, we switched to square brackets for
On 2005-02-22 at 15:47:08, Larry Wall wrote:
Maybe \x is short for \0x and that also gives us \0o, \0d and \0b,
plus any other radix we come up with, assuming we decide it isn't
overly ambiguous with bare \0.
Works for me. So when you really do want a \0 in the middle of a string
