Re: a macro to detect wether \ escapes in fortran

[Patrice Dumas]

> Hi Patrice, looks like a reasonable macro.  However, might I suggest 
> that you send it to the Autoconf Macro Repository?  That's usually the 
> preferable route for macros adding new functionality and which may have 
> a limited audience (most Fortran programmers are likely to avoid C-style 
> escapes if they care about portability, I would think).

The issue is the representation of a \. One has to know whether it is
\ or \\.

Pat