Talk:Special characters

Clarification?

It is not really clear what is asked of by this task, especially the "special characters" part. Most of the examples currently list the character escape sequences used in character and string literals in the languages, fulfilling the "escape sequences" part. But some of the examples also go beyond and list all the symbols used in the language and how they are used in the syntax and stuff; do we really want that? That part seems unrelated to the escape sequences part. --76.173.203.32 09:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

The task says: List the special characters and escape sequences. Likely we can define special characters as those that can't be used in symbols (like variables or functions names) and have a "special" built-in meaning in the language. Escape sequences are those used in string literals and to use special characters like normal symbol, when this can be done (like in TeX). --ShinTakezou 11:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)