Subject: Re: escaping characters
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/12/05
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <90i3oh$6st6d$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Mohap <NOSPAMamol_moh@hotmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| "Richard Cobbe" <cobbe@directlink.net> wrote:
| > See R5RS for a discussion of the difference between display and write,
| > and also for the syntax for character literals.
|
| Thanks. Can you tell me how to escape the space character. I'm not looking
| for a way to print a space. I want to return it from a function.
| And if you know newline that would be great too.
+---------------

He already suggested looking in R5RS, which you should really get
a copy of and print out for ready reference. It's only ~50 pages.
Print it double-sided and it hardly takes any room at all. (And if
you staple it between a pair of blank viewgraph foils it'll last
nearly *forever*.) If you're already using Scheme, you'll find it
really easy to read. It's widely avilable on the net as LaTeX source,
or preformatted in PostScript, DVI, or HTML forms (though I think
the PostScript version prints best):

	<URL:ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/kelsey/r5rs.ps.gz>
	<URL:http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scheme-reports/r5rs.ps.gz>
or:
	<URL:http://www.sonic.net/~bear/scheme/r5rs.html>  [single HTMLfile]
	<URL:http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html>  [HTML tree]


-Rob

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