Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals

Douglas Alan darkwater42 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 11:21:03 EDT 2009


On Aug 10, 10:58 am, Scott David Daniels <Scott.Dani... at Acm.Org>
wrote:

> The string rules reflect C's rules, and I see little
> excuse for trying to change them now.

No they don't. Or at least not C++'s rules. C++ behaves exactly as I
should like.

(Or at least g++ does. Or rather *almost* as I would like, as by
default it generates a warning for "foo\zbar", while I think that an
error would be somewhat preferable.)

But you're right, it's too late to change this now.

|>ouglas




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