From: Keith Wright <kwright@free-comp-shop.com>
Subject: Re: String syntax changed?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:53:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401190553.i0J5r9D1002070@fcs10.free-comp-shop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fzecmu34.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu)
> From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
>
> Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> > (begin (display "$\\scriptstyle{P(A\|D)}$") (newline))
> ...
> > ERROR: #<unknown port>:1:38: illegal character in escape sequence: #\|
> > ABORT: (read-error)
>
> 1.7 is more strict than 1.6 about unrecognized escaped characters.
>
> I don't think it was ever documented that unnecessary backslashes were
> allowed.
...which is good, because if you let people throw extra
backshlashes just anywhere you lose the possibilty of making
extensions. Maybe someday "\|... will mean something not
yet invented. For now an error message is the Right Thing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 0:55 String syntax changed? Roland Orre
2004-01-19 3:21 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2004-01-19 10:24 ` Roland Orre
2004-01-19 4:37 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-19 5:53 ` Keith Wright [this message]
2004-02-17 21:52 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-17 22:11 ` Paul Jarc
2004-02-18 23:38 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-19 6:21 ` Paul Jarc
2004-02-23 19:18 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-24 22:19 ` Paul Jarc
2004-03-20 23:03 ` Marius Vollmer
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