| Gary Scott 2007-11-25, 7:14 pm |
| Dan Nagle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Gary Scott wrote:
>
>
>
> AIUI, your proposal altered existing character literals in two ways:
> One graphic character had a new meaning; and
> The length of the literal is no longer the number of graphic characters
> in it.
>
> AIUI, your proposal altered fixed length character strings by allowing
> a longer literal to be entirely contained within the string.
>
> Am I so far off in the weeds?
>
It merely provided a static template which exists as a fixed length
string. It is treated exactly as a fixed length string except when
alternate processing is explicitly applied. Post processing performs
the substitution for both "escape" sequences or the generic string
substitutions. Could be done at compile time as well as run time.
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