I would say that is a bug... that `\\` doesn't become `\`.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 4:03:43 AM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> Right, what I actually meant was removing backslashes when they occur in
> the input before your quote string (double quote, typically). But I
> actually think we're already doing this:
>
> julia> macro L_str(s)
> s
> end
>
> julia> L"\""
> "\""
>
> julia> L"foo\"\x"
> "foo\"\\x"
>
> julia> print(L"foo\"\x")
> foo"\x
>
>
> The backslash before the " disappears while the backslash before the x
> does not. However, that means that you can't, e.g. pass to a string macro a
> string ending with a single backslash:
>
> julia> print(L"foo\\")
> foo\\
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Steven G. Johnson <steve...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> String macros in general treat everything literally, as Stefan alluded
>> to. I use this in PyPlot to define an L"..." macro for LaTeX. In that
>> context, is is important not to escape backslashes either, so that you can
>> do e.g. L"blah $\sqrt{\alpha}$"
>>
>
>
