From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Avoiding unintentional variable capture Date: 1999/09/15 Message-ID: <3146422756758405@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 525613541 References: <37d6b784.46829757@judy> <87g10h5kvw.fsf@orion.dent.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> <7rodcg$eg0$1@news.gte.com> mail-copies-to: never X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 937433957 25119 193.71.66.49 (15 Sep 1999 22:19:17 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; +1 510 435 8604; http://www.naggum.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Sep 1999 22:19:17 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Dorai Sitaram | CL and many Schemes use \ to escape the succeeding character, so the | symbol \ would be unusably verbose (|\\|). FWIW, \\ is sufficient. #:Erik