Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> Symbol names containing \ don't strictly need to be printed in
>> #{this}# style, but it would significantly simplify the code if they
>> were.  Any objections?
>
> Not sure.  It's nice to avoid the escaping when you don't need it, but
> I'm not sure how much complexity that introduces.

I guess it's not that complex, although it does introduce a
performance hit for certain long symbol names, since part of the
string is re-scanned.  This patch fixes the bugs with symbol names,
but leaves backslash handling the way it is.
	* print.c (scm_print_symbol_name): Bug fixes and comments.


paul