[bitc-dev] Newline conventions

[Dominique Quatravaux]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>
>>Maybe you could use a dual-syntax
>>system along those lines, e.g. \uFFFF and \u{FFFFF...FFF}?
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>>
>
>Yuck!
>
>Principle: one bad syntax is better than two.
>  
>
For once, I have to respectfully disagree. If there is one team that put
some thoughts into getting the source code easy to write (though, I
concede, not necessarily easy to read :-), it is the Perl folks. I do
code in Perl a lot, and the literal-Unicode convention is good enough
for me: simple things simple, complex things possible. And "there is
more than one way / syntax to do it" is a *good* thing, even
(especially!) if neither way is satisfactory in and of itself.

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			Dominique Quatravaux <dom at kilimandjaro.dyndns.org>