I think Dusan Sormaz wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > What about lisp's "~%" ? > > Somebody writing jess (clips) code would be close to lisp syntax anyway. > > Dusan Sormaz
Well, actually, most people writing Jess code are expecting it to be more similar to Java, and I think moving closer to Lisp would be more confusing, not less. I think I will definitely be adding support for \n, \r, \t, etc. It's doubtful that this will cause an any real problems in practice. > > > At 11:41 AM 1/29/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Starting with 6.1a2, which includes a completely rewritten "format" > >implementation, there is a "%n" format character, which indicates a > >newline. > > > >People so often expect that \n and \t and such should work in Jess > >strings that I'm sorely tempted to implement them, even though they > >might conceivably breal existing code. Perhaps they could be turned on > >or off via a switch. Anybody have opinions here? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Distributed Systems Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
