On 12/26/15 4:03 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > So, what do we do now b> to ask for an official interpretation which of the > values is correct > or permitted or preferred or whatever, or is this enough?
Sure. The interpretation will probably be something along the lines of "the standard says what it says" and a request for alternate language. It might be enough to add something to 2.6.3 that says the backslash retains its literal meaning unless followed by " within a double-quoted string. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/