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Issue 3783 - Text inconsistent with EscapeSequence rules
Summary: Text inconsistent with EscapeSequence rules
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dlang.org (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Assignee: No Owner
URL: http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/lex.html
Keywords: spec
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Reported: 2010-02-08 19:00 UTC by Jerry Quinn
Modified: 2015-06-09 01:27 UTC (History)
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Description Jerry Quinn 2010-02-08 19:00:37 UTC 
The lexical grammar rules say that an EscapeSequence must be contained in a single or double quoted literal.  The text still says that a bare escape sequence is a valid string.

The current DMD compiler has deprecated bare escape sequences, so the spec text should be updated as well.
Comment 1 Jerry Quinn 2010-02-08 19:05:56 UTC 
The "Hex Strings" section has a bare escape sequence that should be changed as well:

The following are all equivalent:
"ab" "c"
r"ab" r"c"
r"a" "bc"
"a" ~ "b" ~ "c"
\x61"bc"