bug#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("

2014-10-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
I went ahead and pushed this to stable-2.0, commit 5af307de43e4b65eec7f235b48a8908f2a00f134. It'll be in Guile 2.0.12. I'm closing this ticket. Thanks, Mark

bug#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("

2013-03-09 Thread David Kastrup
Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 07 Feb 2013 10:12, David Kastrup writes: > >> Rationale: GUILE already supports a number of escapes not defined in the >> Scheme standard. Emacs Lisp modes and derivative modes treat opening >> parens in the first column of a file specially, resynchronizing function

bug#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("

2013-03-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 07 Feb 2013 10:12, David Kastrup writes: > Rationale: GUILE already supports a number of escapes not defined in the > Scheme standard. Emacs Lisp modes and derivative modes treat opening > parens in the first column of a file specially, resynchronizing function > boundaries. The respecti

bug#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("

2013-02-07 Thread David Kastrup
Rationale: GUILE already supports a number of escapes not defined in the Scheme standard. Emacs Lisp modes and derivative modes treat opening parens in the first column of a file specially, resynchronizing function boundaries. The respective manual entry states: http://www.gnu.org/software/emac