On 7/5/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
It's completely standard in programming languages:
It's completely standard for a backslash to escape whatever character comes after it. This suggestion is for a backslash to only escape delimiters or other backslashes only if they are followed by a delimiter. That's a significant amount of added confusion.
I was referring to what happens when multiple consecutive backslashes are followed by an escapable character, which you characterized as confusing.