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Re: Misleading single "\" in Emacs Manual Section 25.3


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Misleading single "\" in Emacs Manual Section 25.3
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 22:58:21 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

> Could you make a function where one can pass a string with the syntax
> one puts in a docstring, that returns the effect of docstring
> processing, where the first layer of \ is stripped.

Define precisely what you mean by "the effect of docstring processing"
and define precisely what you mean by "returns".


        Stefan


PS: There's `read` (and `read-from-string`) and its inverse `prin1`.




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