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Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:32:07 -0400

    > I think it would be better to put an explicit terminator into
    > the construct.  Perhaps #.  So you would write "\u123#As I walked"

    There is already the possibility to use `\ ' as a terminator.

That is true.  The worry is that people might forget and run the
unicode constant together with the following text.  People might not
remember to use `\ ' when it is needed, if they usually don't need it.

But it is no great disaster to make such an error--it will be obvious
when you see the output.  So perhaps there's no need to do anything
to avoid the problem.

One other question occurs to me.  In the Unicode branch,
doesn't \x do this job?  If so, \u would be redundant once we
merge in that code.  It would have no lasting purpose.






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