parsing strings

[Ross Paterson]

[trawling through old bug reports]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:44:52PM +0000, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
> there seems to be a problem when parsing multi-line strings:
> in the first string there is no space after the \,
> while in the second there is.  i tried this on linux,
> with the july version of hugs.
> 
> > probelm = "hello \
> >           \world"
> 
> > noproblem = "hello \
> >             \world"
> 
> 
> the error i get is:
> "Illegal character escape sequence "\w"

I think this one is also due to your use of the C preprocessor.
The treatment of backslashes by cpp changed in recent versions of gcc.
Adding the space is now a necessary workaround.

People who don't use -F to run each source file through cpp are
unaffected, of course.