Re: Backslashes in regular expression replacement patterns

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Oct-2012, Rik wrote:

| On the other hand, this is just a design choice and it has already been made
| in one particular direction.  Why bother to change anything and complicate
| our lives?  I'm leaning towards doing nothing.

Seems OK to me.  If you want to use regexp with double quoted strings,
I don't think it is bad to require that they are properly formed with
regard to backslash escapes.

jwe