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- Subject: Re: Feature proposal: \x## notation in strings
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:14:28 -0300
> This is also my opinion. Hex escape sequences feel more natural than
> decimal ones (at least to programmers) :) It would be interesting to
> know why decimal ones were chosen in the first place ?
This may sound weird, but I know many people that grew up comfortable
with decimal numbers... (Also, we wanted to make easy the encoding of
IPs ;)
-- Roberto
