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Re: forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings

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To: Ray Blaak <blaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: forcing delimiters after escapes in quoted strings
From: Matthew Flatt <mflatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:13:22 -0600
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At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:32:18 -0700, Ray Blaak wrote:
> So, will we be able to have strings like "\x41bc" be interpreted as 
> "abc" or will it become an error?

It will be "Abc".

> Forcing it to be "\x41 bc" will become unbearably tedious and confusing 
> to readers also used to programming in other languages.

I'm not sure where this suggest of delimiters comes from. In the
current SRFI, "\x41 bc" is the same as "A bc".

Matthew

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