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> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:39:51 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Right, but why backslash?  Why not something like `digit-four'?
> 
> I don't understand the question.  What is digit-four in this context?

I meant to ask why would it be worse idea to have

  (get-char-code-property ?4 'numeric-value)

return a symbol `digit-four' or `digit-4'.

But maybe the answer is because `\4' is ready for the Lisp reader,
while the alternatives are not.