From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-07-07T06:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Problem

On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Morton Goldberg wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Ari Brown wrote:
> I suspect it's to allow us to print strings verbatim.
>
>> Whats the difference between single and double quoted strings?
>
> I believe single-quoted strings have only one special character --  
> the single quote.
>
> Regards, Morton

And the backslash is a bit special:

'n' => "n"
'\'' => "'"
'\\' => "\\"
'\n' => "\\n"   # because the \ is only special for \ and '

-Rob

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