Warning on backslash sequences (was sprintf behavior)

"Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> writes:

That's a good idea for the case I mentioned although there is still
the case where one requires a single quoted string (maybe for
generating code for some other language) and that is
not handled by deparse.

Yes, but there be devils lurking in there. I think you do in general
need to know what the other language is. Take a look at shQuote(), for
instance. (Why, BTW, does that not simply "escape" single quotes using
'"'"' instead of switching to double-quotes and escaping everything in
sight?)

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