From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sun Apr 16 11:08:49 2006
Subject: Re: Jump from 2.1.65 to 2.9.5
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
CC: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:16:24 -0500

Bill Denney wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by them being fixed.  One way to think about 
> this is:
> 
> * You create an uninterpreted (single quoted) string.
> * You pass that string to a function that interprets the string (sprintf).

I suppose that is one way of looking at it.  Of course, if one thinks in the manner of C where escape characters are always enterpretted as single characters, whether inside single or double quotes, whether as an argument of a function or not, it's confusing.

Dan