Re: [Pika-dev] Dropping the \U+xxxx. syntax for unicode characters in strings

[Tom Lord]

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    > After having implemented the "\(...)" syntax for string embedding
    > (where that whole substring gets replaced by the character represented
    > by "#\..."), I'd like to recommend the "\U+xxxx." syntax for Unicode
    > characters be dropped in favour of the above mentioned syntax --
    > i.e. "\U+10A." would instead be written as "\(U+10A)".  

    > Rationale: reuse of character lexing code, less complicated logic
    > (only one syntax for multi-character escapes), and less error prone
    > syntax (I wouldn't have noticed the . in the \U+xxxx. syntax if
    > someone had not pointed it out on srfi-50).

    > Thougts?

I think you are exactly right.   I will update the draft for "SRFI ?:
Scheme Characters as (Extended) Unicode Codepoints" accordingly.

-t