> "\xe\x1" is unambiguous.

There are two things wrong with this solution:

(1) It descends to another level of discourse--binary encoding of characters.

(2) It does not actually eliminate the need for \&. Consider the
string "\SOH1".  It cannot be written "\x11", or even "\x011".

Doug McIlroy

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