Re: literal newlines in @result{} strings

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Neither of these functions returns `\n'.  And `\n' is not an
    alternative for a literal newline.

I am not sure what distinction you're making.  `\n' is alternative
Lisp syntax for a literal newline.  Which one we use in writing a Lisp
string is arbitrary, except when we're talking about print functions
which use one or the other.