[metapost] re: MetaPost 0.891 announcement

[Hans Hagen]

Larry Siebenmann wrote:

> OK, I suspected tex.  Thanks.  Superficial reading of
> Postscript string syntax suggests that "\ "
> in place of "\040" is a more succinct alternative
> open to mp... (?) 

\040 suits well since it is consistent with the way the other special chars are 
handled; if \ was the way to go, other chars should become \n, \t and such which 
is less preferable

Hans

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