[PATCH v2 3/3] dtc: Support character literals in bytestrings

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:07:16AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:51:49PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:15:40PM -0700, Anton Staaf wrote:
> > > With this patch the following property assignment:
> > > 
> > >     property = ['a' 2b '\r'];
> > > 
> > > is equivalent to:
> > > 
> > >     property = [61 2b 0d];
> > 
> > So, I still have some reservations about this syntax.
> > 
> > It occurred to me: do you actually need to intermix character and
> > hexbyte values that much?  Could I suggest an alternate sytax as:
> > 
> > 	property = 'a', [2b], 'r';
> > 
> > The new character literals sufficiently distinct not to cause problems
> > here, and it maintains the , == bytestring append behaviour we already
> > have.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Does it matter much?  I'm happy with either.  Is there a downside to
> the first syntax?

Well.. probably not.  I'm just nervous about adding anything in the
lexically weird bytestring context.

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