From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2002-01-31T09:32:34+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with string interpolation

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:38:44PM +0900, ts wrote:
> J> Slightly off-topic: what's confusing for me personally here is that in a
> J> certain P language which I also happen to (have to) use, unlike Ruby,
> J> backslashes are _not_ substituted in single-quoted strings.
> 
>  Can you give me the name of this P language ?
> 
>  I hope this is not
> 
> pigeon% perl -l
> print '\\\\\1'
> ^D
> \\\1
> pigeon% 

Oh I am such an idiot, I take that back. This P language behaves identically.
I was confused about ``\\'' being a special case in both languages:

    traitor:~% ruby -l
    print '\n'   
    \n
    traitor:~% ruby -l
    print "\n"


    traitor:~% ruby -l
    print '\\'
    \
    traitor:~% ruby -l
    print "\\"
    \


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