The magical disappearing backslash! Coming to a definition near you.

[AnthonyAMC]

/ex if true { - define a 'this\that' } - narrate %a%

And the debug of it happening in a script.

[mcmonkey4eva]

Congratulations, you escaped the letter t and the number 5.

This is an old 'escape' system auf came up with so you could do \<not-a-tag\> instead of <&lt>not-a-tag<&gt>... nobody uses it, it's undocumented, it's outside the range of standard Denizenness... I think I'ma just delete it.

[AnthonyAMC]

The magical disappearing backslash Part 2!

• Now in 3D *

Can cause an exception by escaping the closing quote.
Would this make it possible to inject arbitrary java code?

• NOTE: To make that * Now in 3D * line i had to escape the * with a \ hazah!

[AnthonyAMC]

And for the encore...

You can work around this by escaping the backslash
\\ or <&bs><&bs>
ymmv

[mcmonkey4eva]

Would this make it possible to inject arbitrary java code?
No.

[mcmonkey4eva]

I've committed a fix for this to the dev branch... I make no claims that it removes \escaping, just that it removes such escaping done by Denizen. Anything done by YAML is another story.