• "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> Feb 13 2012
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> Feb 13 2012

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

What is the correct format for named character entities? According to
the online specs, I should be able to write:

	dchar ch = '&';

But gdc-4.6.2 refuses to compile this; apparently it wants:

	dchar ch = '\&';

Which is right??


T

-- 
People say I'm indecisive, but I'm not sure about that. -- YHL, CONLANG

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 02/13/2012 09:46 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 What is the correct format for named character entities? According to
 the online specs, I should be able to write:

 	dchar ch = '&';

 But gdc-4.6.2 refuses to compile this; apparently it wants:

 	dchar ch = '\&';

 Which is right??


 T


The latter is right. The spec must be implying the \ character as all of 
the other special character syntaxes use it. One of the reasons is that 
character are specified the same way in strings. So "&" is 5 
characters as written. Again, a \ character is required to distinguish 
it as a single character literal.

Ali