Internally they might be the same thing, but lexically they aren't; eg,
Clojure string literals can wrap over multiple lines, and Java strings
can't.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Mark Engelberg mark.engelb...@gmail.comwrote:
According to the Java docs, Java strings support eight escape characters.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/data/characters.html
One of the valid escape characters is \'
Clojure strings are supposed to be the same as Java strings, but when I
type the following string into the Clojure REPL, I get an error that \' is
an unsupported escape character:
\'
Does Clojure have some intentional reason for not fully supporting the
spec for Java strings, or is this just a bug?
--Mark
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