Re: [Scheme-reports] Symbol escapes - clarification

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Marijn scripsit:

> Shouldn't these functions be each others inverses as the names so
> strongly suggests?

Yes.

> Which of the options unescaped/escaped follows from that?

Either.  In fact, however, all Schemes in my test suite (except Rep,
Schemik, and Oaklisp, which don't support `string->symbol`) use the
unescaped version.  I tested with (string->symbol "foo)(bar") and in
all cases got an ordinary symbol.

An interesting difference was the way in which the symbol was printed.
Racket, Gauche, MIT, Gambit, Chicken, SISC, Chibi, STklos printed the
symbol name within vertical bars.  Guile, Chez, Icarus/Vicare, Larceny,
Ypsilon, KSi printed it as foo\x29;\x28;bar, R6RS-style.  SCM, Shoe, Elk
displayed foo\)\(bar.  And Bigloo, Scheme48/scsh, Kawa, Mosh, IronScheme,
NexJ, SigScheme, TinyScheme, Scheme 9, Dream, RScheme, Scheme 7, BDC,
XLisp, UMB, VX, Owl Lisp displayed the symbol raw (this is arguably a
bug in Mosh and IronScheme, which are R6RS implementations).

Note that this list does not match the list of implementations which
*accept* vertical bars, hex escapes, and backslashes.

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