[mercury-users] Proposed change to char literal syntax

[Michael Day]

> Alas, that isn't quite true.  Because of an early decision to make
> Mercury strings identical to C strings, you can't have a function symbol
> that contains character code 0 (NUL).  I think the string decision was a
> poor one, but currently that's what we have.

Is this:

     :- func '\0' = char.

treated like this:

     :- func '' = char.

by the compiler?

Michael

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