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2014-07-21

2014-07-21 12:15:41 by Per Hedbor <ph@opera.com>

• f5b27e5c93c259638a8aff16f5eaefc9c835c88f (24 lines) (+24/-0) ^{[ Show | Annotate ]}
  Branch: 8.0

Added change entry for the new syntax.

Sorry for the messed up commit message previously, it happened since
the character # starts a comment in commit messages.

146:    Unlike how it works in some C compilers the native byte order is    never relevant.    + o Added new syntax for literal-string constats    -  +  #{, #( and #[ starts a literal string, and it is ended by the +  corresponding end marker: #}, #) and #] respectively. +  +  No character is modified at all inside the literal string, including +  newlines, \ " and '. +  +  So, the string #["\n\'##] will be equivalent to "\"\\n\\'#". +  +  The main usecase is to write code in code: +  +  | string code = #[ +  | void main(int c, array v) { +  | string x = ""; +  | foreach( v[1..], string elm ) +  | x += reverse(elm)+","; +  | write("Testing: %s\n", reverse( x )); +  | #]; +  +  The three different start/end markers might be useful if you write +  code in code in code, since there is no way to quote the start/end +  markers. +    New preprocessor features   -------------------------