Re: Unrecognized \ sequences and Elisp

[Stephen Compall]

Roland Orre <address@hidden> (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?

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