use «chevrons» to represent string literal

barbosso barb at your.io
Thu Jan 16 21:34:14 UTC 2025


On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 21:26:29 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> They are not part of ASCII, they are part of an "extended 
> ASCII" ISO/IEC 8859-1 aka Latin-1.
>
> They do not fit in a single byte.
>
> C2 AB
>
> https://symbl.cc/en/00AB/
>
> For us to introduce a new string syntax, it would need to do 
> something that the existing ones cannot reasonably do.

The extended ASCII has 8 bits, 256 distinguish characters


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