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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: readable syntax for control characters in strings
Date: 1996/11/01
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* Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
| given that a syntax familiar to Emacs Lisp (and C) users is unavailable,
| how would one accomplish the same goal: to embed a (named) control
| character in a literal string in source code that is likely to travel
| across all sorts of information-losing channels?
:
| I feel I must have overlooked something or think in the wrong terms.

I did.  reader macros.

#\Erik
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