Re: OK what does ` mean - seriously seems to be not documented.
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) 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.
I'm very sorry gimlet, but you are simply wrong, because `\r\n` and "\r\n", and {13,10} actually are the same thing. They are the same thing because they are stored in RAM as exactly the same way. How you wish to interpret those two numbers is up to you.
The number 13 is just a number, but it can be interpreted as being the Carriage_Return device control code, or anything else your application chooses to. Its just a number.
The same applies to the number 123. If one wants to, it can be used to represent the ASCII character '{', or the EBCDIC character '#'. But its just a number.
The meaning one gives a number depends on your requirements, not one how the number is stored.
