On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:13:18PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote: > > ISO C99, section 6.4.4.4, p3: > > the question-mark ?, [..] is representable according to the > > following table of escape sequences: question mark? \? > > Interesting. I wonder why the standard deeemd it necessary to provide > an escape sequence for the question mark ? > I do happen to have question marks in my strings, but didn't know > about the escape sequence so didn't use it, yet the compiler didn't > complain, and simply put the question mark ASCII code in the string, > as I expected. > > I understand they phrased it to mean a "possibility", not an > obligation, but why provide it if they didn't think there were at > least one use case where it would be mandatory ?
Haven't gone back to the referenced text but perhaps the ? was intended as wildcard character indicating that any character can be escaped as itself when in doubt? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
