ruby/ruby — pull request #553 by idupree (2014-03-05 00:21:07+00:00)
Title: Document single-quoted strings more accurately

`'\a'` and `'\\a'` are both the same as `"\\a"` because single-quoted strings let `\` escape `\`.

(This fact makes it possible to write the string backslash+singlequote, `"\\'"`, as a single-quoted string `'\\\''`.)

What is the correct way in the .rdoc to escape the backslashes surrounded by ``? I'm not confident that I did *that* perfectly. According to github preview, the last backslash kept trying to escape the `` instead of being a backslash character, so I sadly separated them with a space character.