Re: bin/39002: harmful AWK extension: non-portable escaped character

[James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 5:37 AM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> > i.e. it's undefined behavior and there's clearly no "standard
> > behavior" per se.
> Aa I already said NO. It is "undefined behaviour" for regexps but not
> for constant strings.

Actually it's defined exactly for specific sequences for strings. It  
is not defined what happens on any others.

i.e. there's nothing stating that

\x -> \x

or

\x -> x

inside a string. It's not clearly defined there at all.

James