"tony" == Anthony Rossini <rossini@math.sc.edu> writes:
"Kurt" == Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
Martin Maechler writes:
>>> (This reported before). In R, "'" prints as
>>> [1] "\'"
>>> which is different from S, and is really unnecessary. ((it is just
>>> now uglyfying the output of a function which I wrote for S and now
>>> use in R)).
>>> Is there any good reason for the current behavior?
Kurt> Yes. To have ESS font-lock the output correctly.
tony> Poor justification. I'll look into this more in Feb/Mar...
It is actually wrong. There's no problem with font-locking here...
I think we will change this, in the ``next after next'' release of R.
Martin
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