Subject: readable syntax for control characters in strings
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1996/10/29
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3055584571840173@naggum.no>


would an ANSI Common Lisp implementation that allowed the single-escape
character followed by a character other than the single-escape character or
the double-quote in string literals to mean something other than that
character be conforming?

example: according to the specification: "foo\nbar" is interpreted as a
7-character string whose fourth element is #\n.  would an implementation
that returned a string whose fourth element were #\Newline be conforming?

#\Erik
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