Re: Escaping in string definitions

2002-04-24 Thread Nathan Bubna
Geir said: [snip] > > 3. Why do that when \" \\ -> " \ should be enough to eschew the current > > hack? > > > > Rebuttal: > > Because then we really have two different escaping rules for "" string > > definitions. One rule for dealing with valid references and directives and > > one for dealin

Re: Escaping in string definitions

2002-04-24 Thread Barbara Baughman
Another thought. What if we used ""->" instead of \"->" within a string definition for the escaping behavior? That's still a pretty simple rule and follows the interpretation rules of some programming languages. I think any instance of "" within a string definition in the current Velocity would