Jira (PUP-6882) Incorrect handling of escape sequence precedence

[Arnout Boks (JIRA)]

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Arnout Boks created an issue   Puppet / PUP-6882 Incorrect handling of escape sequence precedence Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Components: Language Created: 2016/11/04 12:48 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Arnout Boks Since Puppet 4 one can use Unicode escape sequences, which work fine: $ puppet apply -e 'notify { "\uFFFF": }' Notice: Compiled catalog for example.com in environment production in 0.11 seconds Notice: � Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[�]/message: defined 'message' as '�' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.10 seconds However, if I now want to escape the unicode escape sequence by doubling the backslash and print the literal string \uFFFF it seems like Puppet applies the \u escape before the double backslash escape: $ puppet apply -e 'notify { "\\uFFFF": }' Warning: Unrecognized escape sequence '\�' at line 1:21 Notice: Compiled catalog for example.com in environment production in 0.13 seconds Notice: \� Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[\�]/message: defined 'message' as '\�' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.10 seconds I think this is the wrong way around, and certainly not what one would expect from other languages. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.