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Ticket 390: Allow \| in strings

2012-10-07 11:29:26
WG1 - Core
cowan
major
cowan
fixed
source
closed
2012-05-07 16:09:53
defect

Currently, strings and escaped symbols in vertical lines accept the same escape sequences, except that \| works in symbols but not in strings. The proposal is to allow \| in strings as well, even though it is technically never necessary. We already allow \" in escaped symbols, though it too is technically never necessary.

This allows an implementation to share the same escaping and unescaping code between symbols and strings.

statusnewdecided

Treating as editorial.

owneralexshinncowan
statusdecidedwriting
resolutionfixed
statuswritingclosed