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		fanf2 on Oct 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whence '\n'? Yeah backslash-decimal character escapes are really rare, the only string syntaxes I know of that have them are in O’Caml, Lua, and DNS

binary132 on Oct 6, 2024 [–]

Is O’Caml an Irish fork of OCaml? :)

fanf2 on Oct 7, 2024 | [–]

It was the spelling when I first learned the language, eg https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.05862 https://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/FAQ/stephan.html

binary132 on Oct 8, 2024 | | [–]

Oh, interesting. Thanks for sharing

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