OK. So maybe I should have said "Escaping unnecessarily is a good way to potentially confuse the next programmer to maintain your code".

I still think there's no good reason to add extra escapes. It shows laziness[1] on the part of the programmer and would'nt get thru any code review that I was conducting.

[1] And it's the bad kind of laziness :)

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