On 09/09/2009 08:33 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Per Bothner scripsit:
>
>> \||\|\| =>  the 3-character symbol (string->symbol "|\\|")
>
> I don't understand that.  I'd expect to see the symbol |\|\\\||, parsed
> as |, \|, \\, \|, |.  Or in that case I might fall back to Unicode
> escapes: \x5C;\x7C;\x5C;.

I misremembered the reader rules, thinking that \ was treated
literally inside |...|, but that is not the case for either Kawa
or Common Lisp.
-- 
        --Per Bothner
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