Re: NUL byte in string literal

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-04-02 14:15 GMT+02:00 Albert Chan <albertmcchan@yahoo.com>:
> On Apr 2, 2018, at 5:58 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2018-04-02 11:24 GMT+02:00 Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>:
>>> That leaves the only truly correct way of representing \0 (that
>>> doesn't depend on context) as \000.
>>
>> Not so. \x00 also works, and is IMHO preferable.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> lua decimal escape is easily confused with octal, especially with
> leading zero, like \012.
>
> Any other programming languages use decimal escapes ?

Pascal does, but the cute thing is that it isn't really an escape, it
sits outside the string quotes.

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