17 Jan
2002
17 Jan
'02
11:55 p.m.
Paul Svensson:
I would certainly claim that an unrecognized escape sequence _is_ wrong.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Then you are wrong. Go away and design your own language.
Aahz:
Hey! That's a bit harsh. I'm not going to campaign to make unrecognized escape sequences a syntax error, but not raising a syntax error does seem to be against Python's principles.
Whatever. Who is Paul Svensson and what is he doing in python-dev? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)