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

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?