Boo

\x## escaping for ASCII values

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Parser
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  • Testcase included:
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Description

Boo should support Python's syntax for escaped ASCII values within string literals (is there any alternative syntax for this already?)

Ex:

>>> print "\x50"
P

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Rafael Teixeira added a comment -

Boo accepts the standard C#/VBNET notation that uses \u (for two-byte unicode encoded as UTF-16 which is the internal .NET format):

>> print "\u0050"
P

I think there is no need to add another notation, specially one that allows ambiguous interpretation of characters if you doesn't tell the compiler explicitly in which encoding the source is.

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Rafael Teixeira added a comment - Boo accepts the standard C#/VBNET notation that uses \u (for two-byte unicode encoded as UTF-16 which is the internal .NET format): >> print "\u0050" P I think there is no need to add another notation, specially one that allows ambiguous interpretation of characters if you doesn't tell the compiler explicitly in which encoding the source is.

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    Reporter:
    Philip Peterson
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