Re: Quoting special characters

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 02/25/2014 10:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> the encoding is an implementation detail so not really relevant to the UI.

This reminds me of the quadrigraphs of Autoconf, which are used for a 
similar purpose.  Unlike your proposal, they are visible to the user; 
this tends to make things easier to follow when debugging.  Perhaps 
'make' could steal from their syntax.

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Quadrigraphs.html
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