Re: @foo{\} doesn't work

[Karl Berry]

    There's a problem with backslashes in macros and makeinfo.

I'm not surprised.

    (BTW, why are there two slashes in the error message?)

Don't know, I haven't seen that.  Is there a trailing / in some -I path
or something?

    It took me a looong time to find the problem in a real-world example!

Again, not surprised, but sorry to hear.

    And a last one: I suggest to introduce a command @backslash to
    overcome this problem.

Sounds reasonable.  Analogous to @comma{}.

On the list ...

Thanks for the report,
Karl