On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Paul Prescod wrote: >The documentation says: > >"Unlike Standard , all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the >string unchanged, i.e., the backslash is left in the string. (This >behavior is useful when debugging: if an escape sequence is mistyped, >the resulting output is more easily recognized as broken.)" > >That's a weird thing to say. What could be more helpful for debugging >than a good old SyntaxError??? The usefulness is relative; it's arguably easier to find the problem and fix it if the \ remains in the string than if it's simply removed (as C does, tho most compilers issue a warning). It could also be argued that you get more nutritinal value by eating only the black raisins from the cake then by eating just the golden raisins... /Paul
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