Re: Errors indicated by ineffective backslashes in string literals

[Stefan Monnier]

>> [ Yes, I know it's unrelated, but it's another common (minor) error.  ]
> Ah yes, sorry, should have done that while at it. Now I searched for such
> cases and found lots, and decided to postpone it since it's mostly
> cosmetic --

It's both cosmetic and tricky (you have to understand enough of the
code to be sure that it's not meant to work on multiline text).

> unless we are concerned about newlines in file names, which we
> perhaps should be.

I don't think there's much reason to worry about newline in files, but
it's nice not to need to decide whether we should worry about something
or not.


        Stefan