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Old 28th February 2004, 22:22   #9  |  Link
stickboy
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I don't think the fact that \ is the line continuation character should be problem. It's only a line continuation character outside of a string. (After all, it's also the line continuation character in C!)

I think the bigger issue is that using it as an escape character will break existing scripts that use it in paths. For example:
Code:
AVISource("C:\bar\foo.avi") # \b shouldn't be a backspace

frequentPath = "C:\bar\" # we don't want the quote to be escaped
Import(frequentPath + "baz.avs")
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