From: Max Williams <toastkid.williams@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T18:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: 'ab\c' and 'ab\\c'

I think you stumbled on another special character, \c, which seems to 
have some weird properties:

-in single quotes, must be followed by another character, but when it 
is, just swaps the \ for a \\

-in double quotes, again must be followed by another character, which it 
translates into a number, though by what scheme i have no idea:

>> "ab\ca"
=> "ab\001"
>> "ab\cb"
=> "ab\002"
>> "ab\cA"
=> "ab\001"
>> "ab\cz"
=> "ab\032"

I'm quite intrigued by this as well.


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