Re: backslash escapes in character strings

[Paul Kienzle]

On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:40 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> That is the intent of the new "raw command" (see "mark_as_rawcommand",
> "unmark_rawcommand", and "is_rawcommand") implemented for gnuplot
> syntax, but I'm now thinking that it is just a temporary fix and not
> something we want to use extensively.  Instead, for gnuplot, we should
> probably be writing all gnuplot commands explicitly with some kind of
> function that is equivalent to the current "graw" (or
> "__gnuplot_raw__") function.

mark_as_rawcommand could be very useful e.g., a function '$'
which calls system on it's input, or 'tcl' which passes the inputs
on to an embedded interpreter after substituting octave values
according to some syntax.

- Paul