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>>The answer is, obviously, that the Elisp read syntax for regexps is the
> 
> 
> There is no such thing as a read syntax for regexps.  This is not a Lisp
> data type.
> 
> Andreas.
> 

 From the Elisp manual:

      Therefore, the read syntax for a regular expression matching `\'
      is `"\\\\"'.

Please send your complaints to the writer of that sentence.