Re: Feature proposal: \x## notation in strings

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:

Eike Decker wrote:

A Lua function that converts strings in a more convenient way is
possible, but I think it would be nice if the compiler would support
this natively.

Being a minimalist, I usually prefer extra features to be kept as libraries.
But for hex constants embedded in strings I'd make an exception: I think they're just too useful (in many fields) to be left out of the core.

 Enrico

I agree with these sentiments, I'd like to see this too.

-Duncan