[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20071019-ptw-j Summary: Permit arbitrary escapes in strings

[Donald Anderson]

Approved.  The grammar will reject \4, \5, \6, \7, which
are technically legal, but since we are accepting octal
character escapes, I think this is the right choice to catch
coding mistakes.

On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:18 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> Change 20071019-ptw-j by ptw at dueling-banjos.local on 2007-10-19  
> 14:11:18 EDT
>     in /Users/ptw/OpenLaszlo/ringding-2
>     for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk
>
> Summary: Permit arbitrary escapes in strings
>
> Bugs Fixed:
> LPP-4940 'Trouble parsing strings with backslashes'
>
> Technical Reviewer: dda at ddanderson.com (pending)
> QA Reviewer: hminsky (pending)
>
> Details:
>     Permit any character after '\' (while still ensuring that '\0',
>     '\u', and '\x' escapes are valid).
>
> Tests:
>     Test case no longer gives parse error:
>
>     lzx> "Foo\/"
>     'Foo/'
>     lzx>
>
> Files:
> M      WEB-INF/lps/server/sc/src/org/openlaszlo/sc/Parser.jjt
>
>
> Changeset: http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20071019- 
> ptw-j.tar


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