Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp

[tomas]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:50:14PM +0100, Roland Orre wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 10:04, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Then portable programs cannot use other escape sequences, which means
> > that implementations can invent meanings for other escape sequences
> > without breaking portable programs.

[...]

> When I (define foobar "foo\nbar") do I want it to really evaluate to
> "foo
> bar"
> or do I just want it to print a newline when passed through a certain
> write command? For my own I consider the latter the more useful
> approach.

Hmm. I'd rather expect the former (that's what ``all others'', from
C through Elisp settled on).

[...]

Regards
-- tomás