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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Questions about parser state
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 07:17:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f8dd0eb-00b0-4293-9b23-46ef6e0d2a8a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr4c0bhd2.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>

> > 1. What does the "quote character" mean?  Does it mean "'" in Lisp?  If
> >    so, what about "," and "#"?
> 
> No, it's typically the \ char.

Though char escaping is a type of quoting, would it be clearer to refer
to \ as the escape character?  That's common language, and it is what we
do when talking about regexps (e.g., (elisp) `Syntax Descriptors': "Thus,
`\' as a designator character always means "escape character" syntax...."




      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-05 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-04 23:19 Questions about parser state Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-05  2:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 10:08   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-05 19:26     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 14:17   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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