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More believable for a Linux OS (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by nifty to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Nope. From the spec:

"Unlike Standard C, all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the string unchanged, i.e., the backslash is left in the result."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This behavior is useful when debugging: if an escape sequence is mistyped, the resulting output is more easily recognized as broken.

Wow, this sentence really threw me for a moment. I had no idea how other programming languages behave.

...which makes sense, because they don't. The compiler just tells you to fuck off and that's the end of that story. I guess, they can't do that in Python...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Python 3.12's compiler tells you to fuck off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, neat.