From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: readable syntax for control characters in strings Date: 1996/10/29 Message-ID: <3055584571840173@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193061976 sender: erik@arcana.naggum.no organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313; http://www.naggum.no newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp 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 -- Those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it.