5 Oct
2012
5 Oct
'12
11:53 p.m.
"\xe\x1" is unambiguous.
There are two things wrong with this solution: (1) It descends to another level of discourse--binary encoding of characters. (2) It does not actually eliminate the need for \&. Consider the string "\SOH1". It cannot be written "\x11", or even "\x011". Doug McIlroy