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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Sebastian Egner wrote: > Wouldn't it make more sense to have two forms of 'here string,' one within > a line and one spanning several lines, and then having a modifier > indicating > string or symbol? Strings and symbols have different purposes. While there does need to be an "external syntax" for any symbol that can be created, I don't think there's a good case for going to any extraordinary measures to accomodate it in source code; the symbols someone actually writes in source are almost all going to be shorter than "call-with-current-continuation" and mostly avoid weird characters that have to be escaped. Other symbols that may come about at runtime may encapsulate arbitrary strings, but I don't think there's a compelling need to write them by hand or read them by eye. Bear