On 28 November 2012 10:32, nalaginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > scheme@(guile-user)> (format #t "\033[32;31mhello\033[5m") >> >> Here, \0 is taken to mean #\nul, and then there are two #\3. >> >> IOW, there is no such syntax for octal escapes (info "(guile) String >> Syntax"). >> >> What made you think otherwise? >>
> Now my question is, should we have octal-escapes? Is is impossible or > not implemented yet? You can use two or four digit hex codes, “\xHH” and “\uHHHH”. Is it useful to support octal on top of that?
