Re: [Scheme-reports] Symbol escapes - clarification

[Marijn <hkBst@x>]

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On 11-03-12 23:20, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> I agree entirely; the language of the text should make that intent 
> clearer!
> 
> John Cowan <cowan@x> wrote:
> 
> Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
> 
>> Relatedly, having just read string->symbol and symbol->string,
>> is it clear whether the strings should contain the escaped
>> version of the symbols, or directly be the sequence of characters
>> that make up the symbol after escaping? I think it should be the 
>> latter. It talks of the string as the *name* of the symbol, but 
>> browsing around the text doesn't make it immediately apparent to 
>> me what the relationship between a symbol, its name, and its 
>> written representation are.
> 
> It should definitely be the unescaped form.  If you want the 
> escaped form, use `read` or `write` and a string-port.

Shouldn't these functions be each others inverses as the names so
strongly suggests? Which of the options unescaped/escaped follows from
that?

Marijn
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