Re: [ gnuplot-Bugs-993127 ] Difference between ' and " not maintained internally

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> is already there, and is broken (IMHO).
> In practice that rule is  'single quoted strings are not 
> processed when typed on the command line, but are
> processed later on whenever they are used, or saved'.

No, it isn't.  The only processing unquoted strings have been receiving so
far as "un-processing" them, i.e. inverting the processing of "" quoted
strings before they get written out or shown, for the benefit of getting
guaranteed displayable output... a '' string could contain liberal <Tab>
or non-ASCII characters, e.g., which it may not be wise to display or
save as they are.

> I consider this a bug, because you do not get the same
> behaviour from a saved file that you got from the original.

I don't really think this is true.  Not as of right now, before
introduction of the string-variables patchsets, that is.

Can you demonstrate an actual difference in behaviour from CVS
gnuplot caused by this?

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