From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov 14 02:17:45 1997
Subject: Interpretation of '\' in strings
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: Maximilian Pitschi <Maximilian dot Pitschi at ofw dot pr dot siemens dot de>,         bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 02:18:21 -0600

On 14-Nov-1997, I wrote:

| Here is a patch to try.  It should turn off all special interpretation
| of backslash characters in strings, as well as turning off their use
| as a continuation line marker if you set the new variable
| `backslash_escapes' to 0.

I lied.  It only turns off backslash as a continuation marker inside
strings.  Outside of strings, they still work.  I'm sure this could be
`fixed', but I'm not sure it is worth the effort?  Does anyone care?

jwe