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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: CRLF0710 <crlf0710@gmail.com>
Cc: Guile Mailing List <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How do i refer to the symbol ( and )?
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 11:32:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3liyoruww.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimKOmV2CG4=urYVY9sZd+CFJE=v6g@mail.gmail.com> (CRLF's message of "Tue, 3 May 2011 16:54:39 +0800")

On Tue 03 May 2011 10:54, CRLF0710 <crlf0710@gmail.com> writes:

> While '\{ and '\} are ok, '\( and '\[ are not. So, what's the correct
> way to refer to them?

In Guile 2.0.1:

scheme@(guile-user)> (string->symbol "(")
$1 = #{\x28;}#

Earlier versions do this differently.  Best thing to do is to refer to
such things as strings and not symbols :)

Andy
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03  8:54 How do i refer to the symbol ( and )? CRLF0710
2011-05-03  9:32 ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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