Subject: Re: Avoiding unintentional variable capture
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/09/15
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3146422756758405@naggum.no>

* Dorai Sitaram
| CL and many Schemes use \ to escape the succeeding character, so the
| symbol \ would be unusably verbose (|\\|).

  FWIW, \\ is sufficient.

#:Erik