Re: New escape method proposal (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:09:11 -0400
> 
> On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 08:22 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Any blurring of the lines between these two characters would lead to
> > > more confusion than the alternative, IMO.
> > 
> > I'm questioning the need to have this distinction exposed to
> > user-land.
> 
> There are situations (as shown in my previous emails) where the user
> wants to treat the escaped characters in a string differently from
> unescaped characters.  In this case the distinction must be exposed.
> 
> How should we make that possible?

I'm sorry, it is hard to remember those situations from the distance
of few weeks.  Could you perhaps recap?