Re: backslashes in strings - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: backslashes in strings
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/04/20
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3133607297986766@naggum.no>

* Stig Hemmer <stig@pvv.ntnu.no>
| Quick poll: Does anybody know of existing code that will break if an
| implementation READs \n and friends in strings like C does?

  quick poll: is anyone willing to bet real money that nothing will break
  if an implementation does this across the board?  :)

  *READTABLE* is bindable.  there's no need to poll anyone.

#:Erik