Re: OK what does ` mean - seriously seems to be not documented.
- Posted by gimlet May 07, 2014
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I will spell it out.
Assume the text read in contains `\r\n` then the person writing this meant \r\n not {13,10}. You can say they are the same as 65 = 'A' but that doesn't make them the same. Just because in Euphoria 'A' and 65 are the same byte values doesn't make them the same values with the same meaning.
This is like saying a while loop is only a label loop pair.
Apart from anything else why should `\r\n` be illegal - I am not talking about source code but the textual representation of source to be read into a map.
How coherent would key: 63 = "assignment" be to any person reading the file?
You read in a piece of text containing "crlf". You pass this piece of text "crlf" including the quotes to value and it returns "crlf" a sequence.
You say I can't do something similar to `\r\n` and introduce the red herring that I can't match for \r\n but can match for "*
r
n*". Really?