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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "\x1B" == Escape wanted
Message-ID: <11458@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 15 Feb 91 20:44:37 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <122773@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
: 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.

OK, it's in there.  And \e for \033.

: >\^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.

\c it is.

: >\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 :-)

Heh.

: I also forgot to ask for \E and \O, even and odd parity :-)

Well, you can just forget it again.  tr/// has to be good for something...

Larry