brentoboy - 2005-04-03

The way C uses escape sequences inside of a string to represent undisplayable characters is short, sweet and to the point.

Consider BASIC vs C

C:  "Brent,\nHow are You?"

VB: "Brent," & vbCrLf & "How are You?"

The C way is superior for a couple of reasons: (1) it takes fewer keystrokes.  (2) It requires no runtime concatenation to be performed before the string can be used.

So, I think that APe should follow suit with C and use basically the same escape sequences.