From 5977376b4615f5efe590ee7775c48d82211c68ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: novalis <novalis@novalis.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 00:38:46 -0400
Subject: Test and document escaping on format!()

---
 src/libstd/fmt/mod.rs | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/libstd/fmt')

diff --git a/src/libstd/fmt/mod.rs b/src/libstd/fmt/mod.rs
index da5abe95787..8d50f5efa48 100644
--- a/src/libstd/fmt/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/fmt/mod.rs
@@ -308,6 +308,13 @@ For integral types, this has no meaning currently.
 For floating-point types, this indicates how many digits after the decimal point
 should be printed.
 
+## Escaping
+
+The literal characters `{`, `}`, or `#` may be included in a string by
+preceding them with the `\` character. Since `\` is already an
+escape character in Rust strings, a string literal using this escape
+will look like `"\\{"`.
+
 */
 
 use prelude::*;
-- 
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