Lesson 10: Strings#2011
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| Write a string literal containing the following block of text: | ||
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| This is an example block of text. | ||
| Here is a quotation: "Hello world." | ||
| This line is indented. | ||
| ÁÉÍÓÚ | ||
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| Use the `\t` and `\x` character escapes when doing so. |
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Is the idea that they should kompile a definition which defines this string literal?
Or make a language which allows strings in teh K cell, and krun ... it?
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I mean, the idea is just to write the string literal, so they get familiar with the syntax of string literals in K.
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Well, I guess that doesn't seem like a very fulfilling exercise, to just write down a string literal but have no way to check that it's written correctly. I would either just remove this entirely, or instead just say "Here is an example of a string literal", without asking them to do anything with it.
I guess you want to test that they can figure out how to use the \t and the \x? I'm not sure it's a useful skill. At the very least you should indicate what the code-points for the given UTF-8 strings there are, or point them to somewhere they can look it up easily.
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Well, we can simply remove the exercise entirely, but there really /isn't/ a way for them to test correctness at this point because we haven't taught I/O.
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