From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-07-06T08:42:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wish-list

Hi,

At Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:24:21 +0900,
Roger Pack wrote in [ruby-talk:306957]:
> My thanks to the 1.9 team, who allowed for "abc\x14" style string 
> syntax, so we can actually input any arbitrary strings now within string 
> syntax.  That's nicer :)

Of course, it's been possible also in 1.8 or earlier, even in 0.95.

$ ./ruby -v -e 'print "abc\x14"'| od -tx1z
ruby - version 0.95 (95/12/21)
0000000 61 62 63 14                                      >abc.<
0000004

-- 
Nobu Nakada