Re: [Scheme-reports] Formal Comment: Change syntax of symbols from |<symbol element>*| to #"<string element>*"

[Alan Watson <alan@x>]

>> A survey to see what other implementations use #"..." for would be 
>> useful. My impression is that it is rarely used.
> 
> It is rarely used.  Of my 39 test Schemes, only Racket, Gambit, Larceny,
> IronScheme, Shoe, and and XLisp do something other than error out as
> soon as they see #" -- but in most of these cases, I don't know what they
> are actually doing.

Unless my memory is faulty, Dylan uses #"..." for symbols. Dylan ain't Scheme, but then Common Lisp ain't Scheme either.

Regards,

Alan


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