Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usrgroup
Subject: Re: POSIX Update: Shell and Utilities.
Keywords: Draft 9 shell meta standard shell
Message-ID: <16184@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 15 Mar 90 20:19:31 GMT
References: <2567@mbf.UUCP> <EQ.1811xds13@ficc.uu.net> <16108@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1990Mar8.171918.16011@mks.com>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <1990Mar8.171918.16011@mks.com> eric@mks.com (Eric Gisin) writes:
>In article <16108@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>>My suggestion would be: $\ (dollar-backslash) begins a C-like escape, so we
>>would have $\a $\b $\t $\n $\v $\f $\r, octal escapes like $\177, and hex
>>escapes like $\x7F.  [Also maybe $\^X for ctrl-X.]
>
>My idea for special strings is $"...", where "..." is a C-like string with
>the ANSI C \ escapes.

I like that one, too.  More precisely, I think the semantics should be the
same as a normal double-quoted string except that there are more backslash
escapes (besides the four that currently exist: \$ \` \" \\).

Is comp.std.unix a better place to discuss this?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint