Todd Benson
7/25/2008 8:17:00 PM
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