From kde-commits  Mon Feb 25 22:07:47 2008
From: Marc Mutz <marc () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:07:47 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: KDE/kdepim/kmail
Message-Id: <200802260108.46441.marc () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
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On Monday 25 February 2008 21:27, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> The C++ standard allows arbitrary long hex escape sequences (for
> whatever unfathomable reason).

Probably for the same reason that 'number' in C/C++ is "anything that starts 
with [0-9] and doesn't contain whitespace." I guess it makes for easy lexical 
analysis esp. in the C preprocessor.

Thanks,
Marc

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