[antlr-interest] do we need "..." and '.' ??

shmuel siegel antlr at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Tue Nov 22 23:55:39 PST 2005


Terence Parr wrote:
> 
> Can anybody think of a reason to have single-quote mean single char  
> string?  The single-quotes could be useful for something else in the  
> future.  One must be frugal with the use of symbols ;)
> 
> Ter
Probably not the answer that you were looking for but I feel that the 
main use of dropping the distinction would be to allow embedded quotes 
without escape characters.  From your point of view, is this desirable.



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