[mercury-users] An ugliness in the language (char literals)

[Michael Day]

> Yes it is, but this isn't one of those times.  Prolog doesn't have a character
> type, it just uses integers.  And prolog's syntax for character constants is
> 0'c, which uses Prolog's general radix notation with a radix of 0.  As ugly as
> that may be, it doesn't cause any problems with operators or need any
> escaping.

Ugh.  Ain't Mercury syntax ugly at times?

Michael

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