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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:24AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote:
> > > So you want it to be parsed left-to-right. But you want \c\\ to be
> > > parsed right-to-left. Choose one.
> >
> > Not quite. I want '\\' to be translated to \ in a previous pass, before
> > the \c mechanism sees it. After the '\\' -> \ pass, I want left-to-right.
>
> Then you are advising that "\\nc" and "\cc" should be parsed the same, right?
I don't get it. The first I would parse as three characters: backslash
(the two backslashes become one), n, c. The second as one character:
ctrl-C ("\x03").
Cheers,
Philip
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