I was under the impression that any ASCII  character (with a few
exceptions, but not including "#") could be used to define a variable. I
see know that was a mistake. I also support #"foo", although #r"foo" seems
unnecessarily verbose.


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

> Matthew Plant <maplant2@illinois.edu> writes:
>
> > I would argue that is still workable, through various hacks. In the cond
> > case if you wanted to specify I raw string literal you would do
> > (("default")), which I think is still illegal.
>
> Yes, that's illegal.  But why not #"foo" (like in Clojure regexps)?  Or
> SXEmacs version of raw strings #r"foo"?  To me, that reads much better
> than ("foo") and is much less ambiguous.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
> >> > What if we assume that any string surrounded immediately by
> >> > parenthesis is a raw string literal?  I'm pretty sure every instance
> >> > of ("...") is currently illegal,...
> >>
> >> Nope, inside a `cond', ("default") is a short alternative for (t
> >> "default").
>