Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Escapes (was String-Based Macro Systems) Date: 3 May 2024 09:43:57 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 15 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de HEqpyZQaYre/iRtJ25OJQQD7f4FI3o1354AW+lModmmrPR Cancel-Lock: sha1:LmI8C3iNX1wIX/hGnGMb70EkgjI= sha256:eIdHbDS9xdL/HGy8Lph0nqroIVRE7lJW58GCOJINKdw= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2138 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >>\n - backslash /gives/ significance to n >>\" - backslash /removes/ the significance of the double quote >>That inconsistency does seem odd. >This "inconsistency" here only stems from how you've worded >it above. You could phrase it differently, and then the >"inconsistency" would vanish. Take for instance: The standard meaning of "n" is the letter, the standard meaning of the quotation mark is delimitation. The backslash consistently imparts a special meaning deviating from that standard meaning in each case.