From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@fabula.de Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:26:46 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040127162646.GB27194@www> References: <1075174623.23547.960.camel@localhost> <1075207814.23541.1113.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075221306 9791 80.91.224.253 (27 Jan 2004 16:35:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Jarc , guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 17:34:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlWAt-00029O-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:34:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlW74-0006Nj-L7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlW6C-0006G5-CO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlW5d-00067N-Sg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:29:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.22.192.104] (helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlW36-0005QS-Qp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 5002) id C99C214550; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:26:46 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Roland Orre Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075207814.23541.1113.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3322 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3322 On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:50:14PM +0100, Roland Orre wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 10:04, Paul Jarc wrote: > > Then portable programs cannot use other escape sequences, which means > > that implementations can invent meanings for other escape sequences > > without breaking portable programs. [...] > When I (define foobar "foo\nbar") do I want it to really evaluate to > "foo > bar" > or do I just want it to print a newline when passed through a certain > write command? For my own I consider the latter the more useful > approach. Hmm. I'd rather expect the former (that's what ``all others'', from C through Elisp settled on). [...] Regards -- tomás _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel