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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "\x1B" == Escape wanted
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Date: 12 Feb 91 20:14:16 GMT
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Since I never saw a reply, I'm reposting this.

In article <121552@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
I'm tired of thinking in octal. ANSI seems to be as well.
Don't worry, I don't think anyone wants trigraphs yet :-)

I want to be able to say: $ESC = "\x1b" rather than "\033".
And since perl is now a piece of GNU, should we be allowed
to say such things as "\e", "\^x", and "\M-C-a"?
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