On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:07:16AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:51:49PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:15:40PM -0700, Anton Staaf wrote:
> > > With this patch the following property assignment:
> > >
> > > property = ['a' 2b '\r'];
> > >
> > > is equivalent to:
> > >
> > > property = [61 2b 0d];
> >
> > So, I still have some reservations about this syntax.
> >
> > It occurred to me: do you actually need to intermix character and
> > hexbyte values that much? Could I suggest an alternate sytax as:
> >
> > property = 'a', [2b], 'r';
> >
> > The new character literals sufficiently distinct not to cause problems
> > here, and it maintains the , == bytestring append behaviour we already
> > have.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Does it matter much? I'm happy with either. Is there a downside to
> the first syntax?
Well.. probably not. I'm just nervous about adding anything in the
lexically weird bytestring context.
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