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On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:13 PM, William Ahern
<william@25thandclement.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:11:43PM -0400, Rena wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:38 PM, William Ahern
> <snip>
>> > Now modify yours to support escaping $, like "Hello \$planet!". Note should
>> > also permit escaping the escape character, "Hello \\$planet!".
>>
>> That would be interesting, because backslash is also an escape character:
>> > =#"a\$b"
>> stdin:1: invalid escape sequence near '"a\$'
>> > =#"a\\$b"
>> 4
>>
>> Do you want leaning toothpick syndrome? Cuz that's how you get leaning
>> toothpick syndrome. :-)
>
> Is that how you get ants :)
>
>

We'll let the Java folks worry about Ant.

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