[PATCH 1/2] Add character literal parsing in bytestrings

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > 
> > Well, to be honest I'd love to have this syntax several years ago :).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Ok, here's what I suggest.  For now, can you create a patch which
> > recognizes the character construct syntax in the lexer (including
> > escapes), and allows its use in cell context.  That won't actually do
> > what you want, but it gets a fair chunk of the code in a testable,
> > upstreamable form without making syntax changes I'm uncomfortable
> > with.
> > 
> > While we're getting that merged we can debate which/how to proceed
> > with either variable size cell syntax or allowing the character
> > literals in bytestring context.
> 
> Is it worth investigating any of the work I did down this line
> several years ago?  It's all still in the "test" branch if so.

Well, it might be worth re-examining that in any case, but as far as I
can recall or tell from a quick look at the testing branch, everything
in there is more or less orthogonal to anything suggested in this
thread.

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