perl 2.0 ('\\\\' eq "\\\\") bug?

[Larry Wall]

In article <9683 at dhw68k.cts.com> bob at dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best) writes:
: The man page for perl 2.0 states (on page 6):
: 	  String literals are delimited	by either single or double
: 	  quotes.  They	work much like shell quotes: double-quoted
: 	  string literals are subject to backslash and variable
: 	  substitution;	single-quoted strings are not.
: 			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: Perl considers '\\\\' identical to "\\\\" as evidenced by the following:
: 
: if ('\\\\' eq "\\\\") {print "equal\n";} else {print "not equal\n";};
: 
: Compare this with:
: 
: if ('\n\n' eq "\n\n") {print "equal\n";} else {print "not equal\n";};

OK, minor clarification.  Single quoted strings DO pay attention to
backslashes, but only in front of single quotes or backslashes.

Sorry, I'll fix the doc.

Larry