Unfortunately, when the formal syntax differs from the prose,the formal syntax takes precedence. Whatever the WG intentionsmay have been, the community ratified a standard in which \|is not a predefined escape sequence in strings. Referring to oldballots was fine during the process, but now can only serve forhistorical interests and to dig up rationales.
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