From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: How do i refer to the symbol ( and )? Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 11:32:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304415188 16148 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2011 09:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 09:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Mailing List To: CRLF0710 Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 03 11:33:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHByU-00072f-HO for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 11:32:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHByU-0003yf-2J for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 05:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHByR-0003yV-Mt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 05:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHByQ-0006Ub-Q2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 05:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:35382 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHByQ-0006UX-Np for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 05:32:54 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C9A2AC7; Tue, 3 May 2011 05:34:58 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=cTMZSHSShD2o8v3DYYCcjWX2QcU=; b=ach1/D UdJx3musq867ryFtLB58zZjyFrqP4+SlYz1zuFBz/jEmbD4z/Zk0V9KiXc7TCf45 7Q8ZibKhbhHV84aAMvnnPuRKxlhYjnfp99WE7kxnHvpdI1D23Om6pbs+yxUgp3aN bxqK4OFjyqg3nQALgfEEH2CdPOEq+q+bFh6mc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=luMdodLYUaiXmEvp5Fnb1OjP5gDhYqBe TWNTZxbxmPVDYabiSjdByNn6pqXGWlAeXGGI2HjlF87NyzIe/3QfrYuinKuhtOLa O+u9ibvxyS2q6Z/GeKYsB+85OYaSrnfa2DqPS6n/DTx3PZ1+QhdhRFmbNyeXO5BB LKyJ3odV8rE= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3FE2AC6; Tue, 3 May 2011 05:34:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B96632AC5; Tue, 3 May 2011 05:34:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (CRLF's message of "Tue, 3 May 2011 16:54:39 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9B430160-7568-11E0-B6BA-E8AB60295C12-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12415 Archived-At: On Tue 03 May 2011 10:54, CRLF0710 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 -- http://wingolog.org/