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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add support for R7RS named characters and


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add support for R7RS named characters and string escapes (except hex escapes)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:23:49 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Alex Shinn scripsit:

> > It's unspecified what an implementation should do with that, like
> > any other escaped character (like, for example, "\p").
> 
> This is intentionally unspecified - you can do what you like here.
> A pedantic impl would signal an error.

Indeed.  If things like \p were specified (to mean p, for example),
we wouldn't be able to add a meaning to them in R8RS.

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