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

[Arthur Smyles <atsmyles@x>]

A survey to see what other implementations use #"..." for would be 
useful. My impression is that it is rarely used. Given that eggs will be 
broken, whichever way the working group decides, I believe it is better 
to reduce the amount of special characters to allow maximum flexibility 
for naming in the identifier lexical space. Also, given the fact that 
the working group  believes it is necessary to standardize literal 
symbols and not bytestrings, it is further evidence that #"..." for 
symbols should be considered a higher priority use.

Arthur

On 3/12/12 10:08 PM, Alex Shinn wrote:
> #"..." is a bytestring in Racket, and possibly some other
> implementations.  Gauche has string extensions for #*"..."
> and #`...` (which is also quasisyntax in R6RS).  #|...| is
> used by SRFI-30 and the current draft.
>
> There are not a whole lot of character sequences left,
> though that in itself is an argument not to take too many
> just for string escapes.
>

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