Re: How to read a line of text?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Jan-2004, Ron Stodden <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>    Thanks for the research.    The 0\'z form is at the bottom of one of
>    the swi-prolog 5.0.10 manual pages - hard to find.

Probably a formatting error in that man page.

>    The backslash form (escaping the ') should work also, but does not,
>    that's possibly a bug.

No, the ISO Prolog standard says that the backslash form (e.g. "0\'a")
is not a valid token.

> [Fergus wrote:]
> > GNU Prolog supports the ISO Prolog syntax just like SWI Prolog 5.0.8.
> 
>    Not 100% true in my experience - both have extensions [...]

I meant that GNU Prolog supports the ISO Prolog syntax _for character code
literals_.

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