Re: How to actually print single ‘\’ character?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On December 23, 2020 1:55:49 PM GMT+02:00, Pankaj Jangid 
<pankaj@codeisgreat.org> wrote:
> 
> Now I have confusion with single backslash. See following two forms,
> their output and return values:
> 
> (message "this \\ is a single embedded backslash") ⊣ "this \ is a
> single
> embedded backslash" ⇒ "this \\ is a single embedded backslash"
> 
> (message "this \ is a single embedded backslash") ⊣ "this is a single
> embedded backslash" ⇒ "this is a single embedded backslash"
> 
> Why the output and return same for string with single backslash?

Because the return value should be suitable for the Lisp reader.