OT Signature quote [was Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals]

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri Aug 14 16:10:57 EDT 2009


Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-08-14, Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>> What the hell
>> would it actually do???
> 
> IIRC in C++, 
> 
>    cout << "Hello world";
> 
> is equivalent to this in C:
> 
>    printf("Hellow world");
> 
> or this in Python:
> 
>    print "hellow world"

Well, plus or minus newlines.

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