[Doc-SIG] Not escaping the escape leaves no escape ;)

[Jürgen Hermann]

> > Well, my first guess would be ``\\*``
> 
> Aaargh - no, I *meant* ``\\\*`` - as in::
> 
>    This text contains \\\*, which should be
>    a backslash followed by an asterisk.

No, your first guess was right. Since '\\' is not an escape sequence, the
lexer would return '\', with '\*' remaining. And '\*' is a single asterisk.
So the only problem remaining is that NOONE used to "normal" escaping will
be able to grok this intuitively, which both of us just proved very nicely.
;)

Ciao, Jürgen

--
Jürgen Hermann, Developer (jhe@webde-ag.de)
WEB.DE AG, http://webde-ag.de/