From: Peter Danenberg <p...@roxygen.org> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Backslash-symbol changed from \ to \\ between 4.5.0 and 4.6.0 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:52:24 -0500
> Quoth Felix on Prickle-Prickle, the 60th of Bureaucracy: >> This change is intentional. `\' is now a (single) escape character. >> The reading of keywords is indeed incomplete, yet. > > Ok; is the consensus, then, that I should escape all my backslashes in > symbols with another backslash from 4.6.0 onwards? > > I agree with Peter Bex, though, that R5RS seems to be mum on the > matter of backslashes in identifiers; according to 7.1.1 [1], in fact, > these are the only explicitly allowed symbols in addition to letters > and numbers: > > ! $ % & * / : < = > ? ^ _ ~ + - . @ > > It might have been presumptuous of me to depend on the 4.5.0 > behaviour; but it would be nice, on the other hand, to document the > change somewhere. > See the manual chaprter "Non-standard read syntax" -> "Escapes in symbols". cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users