[bitc-dev] Newline conventions

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:26 +0100, Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
> Jonathan S. Shapiro a écrit :
> 
> >
> >Are there any common notations from the world of UNICODE documentation?
> >  
> >
> Perl uses \xFF for one-byte Unicode (not terribly useful, I know) and
> \x{FFFF} for any number of bytes. Maybe you could use a dual-syntax
> system along those lines, e.g. \uFFFF and \u{FFFFF...FFF}?

Yuck!

Principle: one bad syntax is better than two.