Thomas Seeling wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> In cases where this is ambiguous ("\x011\x012\x014NET"),
you need to use

 TS> The way you wrote it this means \x011 \x012 \x014. Hex
 TS> values are parsed from input as long as valid hex digits are
 TS> following. This is in contrary to octal notation which stops
 TS> after at most 3 digits ("\0601" really means "01"). 

My point was that one does not use such unreadable constructs in practice.
 
-- Mike


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