[mercury-users] Proposed change to char literal syntax

[Nicholas Nethercote]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Michael Day wrote:

> However, if single quotes can still be used in other contexts then it seems 
> that the compiler would still need to be able to resolve the ambiguity 
> somehow. For example, we have a function like this:
>
> :- func (' ') = unicode.
>
> (' ') = unicode(0x20).
>
> which allows us to use ' ' as a UNICODE character literal if we feel so 
> inclined.

That doesn't strike me as a good thing...

Nick
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