From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] color on linux terminal
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:11:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B39EDB.9020907@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070113205636.GB24042@localhost>
> This is my biggest "pet peeve" about OCaml. It uses *decimal* escapes
> for characters,
Hexadecimal is also supported ("\x1b[31m blabla") and highly recommended.
> not octal like everywhere else in the UNIX and C-influenced universe.
Well, how many fingers do you have? :-) Octal is a left-over from the
PDP-11 days and should have been abandoned a long time ago.
- Xavier Leroy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-21 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-13 20:29 Markus Weihs
2007-01-13 20:52 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel de Rauglaudre
2007-01-13 21:05 ` Markus Weihs
2007-01-13 20:53 ` [Caml-list] " Vu Ngoc San
2007-01-13 20:56 ` Eric Cooper
2007-01-16 18:23 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-21 17:11 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2007-01-13 20:56 ` Goulagman
2007-01-13 21:38 ` Philippe Wang
2007-01-13 22:45 ` Christophe TROESTLER
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