-Xprint prints octal escape literals in strings #13183
Description
"they were deprecated for ages in Scala 2 and were dropped in 2.13"
Compiler version
3.0.0, 3.0.3-RC1-bin-20210727-b902516-NIGHTLY
Minimized code
$ scala3 -Xprint:typer
scala> "\u001b" Output
$ scala3 -Xprint:typer
scala> "\u001b"
result of rs$line$1 after typer:
package <empty> {
final lazy module val rs$line$1: rs$line$1$ = new rs$line$1$()
final module class rs$line$1$() extends Object() { this: rs$line$1.type =>
val res0: String = "\033"
}
}
val res0: String =
BUT:
scala> "\033"
1 |"\033"
| ^
| octal escape literals are unsupported: use \u001b insteadExpectation
$ scala3 -Xprint:typer
scala> "\u001b"
result of rs$line$1 after typer:
package <empty> {
final lazy module val rs$line$1: rs$line$1$ = new rs$line$1$()
final module class rs$line$1$() extends Object() { this: rs$line$1.type =>
val res0: String = "\u001b"
}
}
val res0: String =