From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-07-26T05:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: weird backsplash behaviour inside single quotes

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> On 25/07/2008, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > The backslash is a tool to escape the single quote inside a quote,
>>  > therefore it must escape itself as well.
>>
>>
>> I should be more clear.  If you have a symbol that performs a function
>>  withing a domain (the quote) and you want to have the symbol not
>>  perform that function, but just be part of the domain, you have to use
>>  that symbol (escape) on itself.
>>
> well, there's no function to perform, there's no quote. And if we do
> not distinguish between situation when there is a quote or not then
> backslashing any other letter should also produce the letter. But then
> we will lose the reason for which single quotes were introduced in the
> first place: writing less backslashes.

Simple.  What if you're backslash comes at the end of a single-quoted string?

Todd