[issue44308] Raw Strings lack parody

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Ah, I think I see: you want a function that turns the string "foo\bar" into "foo\\bar". Even if this were a good idea, I don't think it's feasible to do it in a non-surprising way.

For example, given such a function f, what outputs would you expect for:

  (a) f("\012"), and
  (b) f("\n")?

(And yes, this is a trick question: "\012" and "\n" are the same string.)

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