Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: The \c escape Message-ID: <963@ficc.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 16:24:19 GMT References: <4604@haddock.ISC.COM> <5907@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <8125@brl-smoke.ARPA> <8127@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: SCADA Lines: 16 In article <8127@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes: > In article ... karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: > >the nonexistence of a spelling for the character constant '\x234\c5'... > Probably not. Multiple-character character constants are unportable and > considered bad style. They're only permitted because they were in previous > practice. Many of us don't think you should ever try to make use of them. (1) OK, how do you spell "\x234\c5"? "\x234""5"? Bleagh. (2) What's wrong with a readable and maintainable way of initialising a 32-bit unsigned integer to 0x464F524DL? You prefer that (or ('F'<<24)| ('O'<<16)|('R'<<8)|('M')) to 'FORM'? -- -- Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. -- Phone: 713-274-5180. Remote UUCP: hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter.