> Le 2 janv. 2015 à 22:08, Caitlin Potter <[email protected]> a écrit : > > (...)
> More important, octal escape sequences are a bit liberal, in that they > can be of several lengths, with a pretty wide range of delimiters. > This, I think, results in many cases where octal escape sequences are > used by accident, rather than intentionally. It's a footgun, and > ideally that footgun should not be there. Concretely, the danger is that someone could write "\07" when they mean "\0" + "7". This is a good point. (Were you thinking of other cases when you wrote "many cases"?) > > I feel like the "refactoring pain" argument is not very compelling, > because I am not convinced beginners are likely to use octal literals > on purpose (or even by accident). I agree on that point, and therefore I didn't make any refactoring argument. —Claude _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
