On 03/22/2013 04:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/22/2013 09:45 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> @table @samp >> @item a >> named character, ignoring high-order bit >> @item c >> -ASCII character or backslash escape, >> +printable single byte character or backslash escape, > > Hmm, we output octal sequences without a backslash; should the info page > be any more verbose that it is one of: a single-byte printable > character, a C backslash escape, or an octal sequence? Or does that > just clutter things (seeing three octal digits, even without a > backslash, still makes it easy to determine that it can be used as an > escape sequence).
Good point. I'll make that clarification in the same commit as it at least confirms the behavior is intended. POSIX is explicit about the three possibilities. thanks, Pádraig.
