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A single character may be written as a single quote immediately
followed by that character. The same escapes apply to characters as to
strings. So if you want to write the character backslash, you must
write `'\\' where the first `\' escapes the second `\'. As you can
see, the quote is an acute accent, not a grave accent. A newline
immediately following an acute accent is taken as a literal character
and does not count as the end of a statement. The value of a character
constant in a numeric expression is the machine's byte-wide code for
that character. `as' assumes your character code is ASCII: `'A' means
65, `'B' means 66, and so on.
Created Wed Sep 1 16:41:00 2004 on bee with info_to_html version 0.9.6.