From cac997eb95eb74a48febb54e357bfe991ad7de6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:09:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] Single quote strings allows
 escape   of backslash as well, patch by @idupree [Fixes GH-553] [ci skip]  
 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/553

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@45332 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
---
 ChangeLog                | 6 ++++++
 doc/syntax/literals.rdoc | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a813112114..e5b9a2669d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Fri Mar 14 12:07:46 2014  Zachary Scott  <e@zzak.io>
+
+	* doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] Single quote strings allows escape
+	  of backslash as well, patch by @idupree [Fixes GH-553]
+	  https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/553
+
 Fri Mar 14 01:18:24 2014  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* vm.c (invoke_block_from_c): add splattable argument.
diff --git a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
index e01b6875d4..32e10edd30 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
+++ b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ single-quote strings:
   '#{1 + 1}' #=> "\#{1 + 1}"
 
 In addition to disabling interpolation, single-quoted strings also disable all
-escape sequences except for the single-quote (<tt>\'</tt>).
+escape sequences except for the single-quote (<tt>\'</tt>) and backslash
+(<tt>\\\\</tt>).
 
 You may also create strings using <tt>%</tt>: