Looks like docstrings are being hit: all of a sudden, I’m seeing failures like this: Travis CI - Test and Deploy with Confidence Travis CI enables your team to test and ship your apps with confidence. Easily sync your projects with Travis CI and you'll be testing your code in minutes. …

This is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/22800 In literal strings, a backslash before an unrecognized character used to be silently ignored. e.g. "\Foo" was equivalent to "Foo". Now it is an error, and it seems to be exposing a lot of typos in docstrings.

Lots of things are now breaking in 0.7

Internals & Design

anon94023334 July 19, 2017, 1:46am 4

was there no period of deprecation for this?

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Lots of things are now breaking in 0.7

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