[PATCH] -### yet again!

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Nov 13 15:03:00 GMT 2001


Ira Ruben <ira@apple.com> writes:

|> At 4:13 PM -0700 11/8/01, Tom Tromey wrote:
|> 
|> >Finally, I think you must escape `\' if you are going to escape an
|> >embedded double quote.  Otherwise ambiguity can result.
|> 
|> Sigh :-(  I guess if I am going to do the escaped quotes I have to
|> add this too.  I might as well not make a special cause of outer
|> quotes either and escape them too while I'm in the neighborhood.

And what about `$'?  This is special too in double quoted strings.  It
might be easier to use single quotes for quoting since there is only one
special character, the single quote itself.

Andreas.

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