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String syntax ambiguity
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Richard Stallman |
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String syntax ambiguity |
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Date: |
Sun, 23 Dec 2001 21:57:58 -0700 (MST) |
On rereading a bug report Dave Love sent a couple of weeks ago, I
figured out that "^\341-\377" (a unibyte string) and
(string-as-multibyte "^\341-\377") (a multibyte string) have the same
printed representation. I suspect that this ambiguity results from
the changes that were made to allow the codes \200 to \377 to appear
in multibyte strings.
This is not a good situation--we should fix it. But I don't see
any obvious way to differentiate the syntax for the two cases.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
- String syntax ambiguity,
Richard Stallman <=