Brian Harvey scripsit:

> Actually, I don't think these two expressions have the same result at all.
> The second one will sit silently waiting for a matching close parenthesis.
> :-)

Quite right.  It's very annoying that R6RS chose to use ; as the delimiter
for escape sequences in identifiers.  \(<exact-integer>) would have been
much more Schemey, giving us \(#x3bb), only two silly characters longer.

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