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in reply to Single quoting weirdness

Yes: "\\" is a backslash-escape, which produces a single backslash. Without it, you'd have no way to get a backslash into an interpolated string, or onto the end of an uninterpolated string. It escapes in both types of strings.
   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print
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