Re: Feature proposal: \x## notation in strings

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Yes, please.
>
> Adding hex escape sequences -- besides being useful in their own right
> -- would be an elegant workaround for the decimal-octal confusion caused
> by the current escape sequences.

Yes, Holy Three!  It's only 17 extra lines:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-03/msg00228.html

Octal is one of those weird historical things that won't go
away...it's almost Babylonian (like 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes
in an hour)

steve d.