[Python-Dev] Utopian String Interpolation

[Guido van Rossum]

> >Paul Svensson:
> >> 
> >> I would certainly claim that an unrecognized escape sequence _is_ wrong.
> > 
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Then you are wrong.  Go away and design your own language.
> 
Aahz:
> Hey!  That's a bit harsh.  I'm not going to campaign to make
> unrecognized escape sequences a syntax error, but not raising a syntax
> error does seem to be against Python's principles.

Whatever.  Who is Paul Svensson and what is he doing in python-dev?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)