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- Subject: Re: patch: C-style string lexing
- From: Tony Finch <dot@...>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:38:22 +0000
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Mildred wrote:
>
> You can define an escape sequence that could be written \%s+\ and that
> does nothing. For instance your example could be written:
Martin Richards' language MCPL has exactly the same syntax, and its
predecessor BCPL is very similar. (BCPL uses * instead of \.)
Tony.
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