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Special character literals
Characters are normally written like text string literals in dodo.
However special characters have a different syntax. Special character
literals occur outside text string literals and start with "\". Some
special characters are:
\" or \q double quote
\n newline
\t tabulation
\uXXXX unicode character XXXX (hexadecimal)
Rationale:
keeping special characters out of text string literals accomplishes two
things, it frees string literals from having to define an escape
character
and it reduces the number of keystrokes required to type a single
special character since there are no quotes. The drawback is that
strings with many special characters involve a lot of string
concatenation.
^ 2.4.2. Text String Literals
v 2.4.4. Enum Values