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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: 15 Feb 91 20:33:48 GMT
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In article <11454@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <122472@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>: I want to be able to say: $ESC = "\x1b" rather than "\033".
>
>Maybe.
>\a for "audible bell" may appear simply because it's in K&R2.

Like \a for alarm, \x## is ANSI as well.

>\^x will never happen in Perl, simply because it violates the rule that
>backslashed non-alphanumerics are always themselves.  Possibly \cx, though.

Of course. How silly of me. And \c is probably a good choice,
because the current meaning (no newline) is meaningless in perl.

>\M-C-a is not much use unless you're writing an editor.

Well, yes, the reason I included that is to give you something to reject :-)
I also forgot to ask for \E and \O, even and odd parity :-)

>Larry
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