Added note about printing special characters to escape sequences to the reference.

diff --git a/docs/reference.lisp b/docs/reference.lisp
index 007bc71..530baaf 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/reference.lisp
+++ b/docs/reference.lisp
@@ -130,9 +130,10 @@ WHEN WHILE WITH WITH-SLOTS
 
 "bratzel bub" => 'bratzel bub'
 
-;;; Escapes in Lisp are not converted to JavaScript escapes. However,
-;;; to avoid having to use double backslashes when constructing a
-;;; string, you can use the CL-INTERPOL library by Edi Weitz.
+;;; Special characters such as newline and backspace are converted
+;;; into their corresponding JavaScript escape sequences.
+
+"      \b"   => '\\t\\b'
 
 ;;;## Array literals
 ;;;t \index{array}

diff --git a/t/reference-tests.lisp b/t/reference-tests.lisp
index 1e85593..659c86f 100644 (file)
--- a/t/reference-tests.lisp
+++ b/t/reference-tests.lisp
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@
   "bratzel bub"
   "'bratzel bub'")
 
+(test-ps-js string-literals-3
+  "    \b"
+  "'\\t\\b'")
+
 (test-ps-js array-literals-1
   (array)
   "[  ]")