RE: backslashes and r-strings r"abc"

Greg Ewing wrote:

> Martin Christensen <[email protected]>:
> 
>> As I see it, the best alternative to the usual way of 
>> handling escape 
>> characters is for Strings to have a 'process escape 
>> characters' method
> 
> Another way would be to have a set of constants like
> tab, newline, etc. and build up strings with these:
> 
>  "hello" + tab + "world" + newline

No one really wants this, do they?  I'm assuming everyone wants backslash
esc chars until I hear otherwise.