From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Compall Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp Date: 27 Jan 2004 11:43:49 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075226126 22640 80.91.224.253 (27 Jan 2004 17:55:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:55:26 +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 18:55:11 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 1AlXQc-0000ek-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:55:10 +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 1AlXQJ-0001kP-7d for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlXPo-0001jT-Rb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:54:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AlXPI-0001be-TS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.195.228.35] (helo=csserver.evansville.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AlXNm-0001FP-HL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from csserver.evansville.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by csserver.evansville.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0RHhnlQ000617; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:43:49 -0600 Original-Received: (from sc87@localhost) by csserver.evansville.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i0RHhnKB000613; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:43:49 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: csserver.evansville.edu: sc87 set sender to s11@member.fsf.org using -f Original-To: Roland Orre In-Reply-To: <1075207814.23541.1113.camel@localhost> Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:3323 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3323 Roland Orre (not really) writes: > > Well, if we see the two characters \( in the middle of a string, then > > the program is not portable, and we have to decide on our own what to > > do about it. Treating it like plain ( eliminates the possibility of > > future extensions, so now Guile has been changed to throw an error - > > i.e., it refuses to interpret this escape sequence at all. Isn't that > > what you want? Speaking of future extensions, why not just make this extensible, then, and use the needed extensions when reading elisp? -- Stephen Compall or s11 or sirian If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding- forth old bore who expected every hero-worshiping adenoidal little twerp of a student-poet to hang on to his every word I never saw. -- James Dickey UFO STARLAN Glock Leitrim military event security Audiotel Marxist genetic defense information warfare MDA Panama BROMURE MD5 Firefly _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel