On 3/30/08, Philippa Cowderoy
My guess is it's not particularly "supposed" to be doing much, but it munches Char and so Unicode input is a distinct possibility. I'd also guess that after the \ it just reuses the existing hex literal function which definitely does need to handle arbitrary length .
Well, yes, but I'd like to know what the spec is. If there is one, anyway!
My approach is simple: when in doubt, write your own lexing functions - at least that way any nasty surprises are your own fault!
I'll do so if it comes to that, but if it's truly a bug, I'd prefer it to be fixed so that everyone can enjoy the results (even if it's me who ends up fixing it :-) Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "Accordingly, computer scientists commonly choose models which have bottoms, but prefer them topless." -- Davey & Priestley, _Introduction to Lattices and Order_