#"..." is a bytestring in Racket, and possibly some other implementations. Gauche has string extensions for #*"..." and #`...` (which is also quasisyntax in R6RS). #|...| is used by SRFI-30 and the current draft.
There are not a whole lot of character sequences left, though that in itself is an argument not to take too many just for string escapes. -- Alex On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Arthur Smyles <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand that most implementations use the pipe syntax since that > was what Common Lisp standardized in the 90's. The consequences for > standardizing this syntax is a permanent increase in the complexity of > the reader and permanently breaking ideas like SCSH in the future. > However, using this new syntax will still allow implementations to > continue supporting their current implementation as a deprecated syntax. > > Arthur > > On 3/12/12 8:27 PM, John Cowan wrote: >> Arthur Smyles scripsit: >> >>> Summary: >>> >>> Change syntax of symbols from |<symbol element>*| to #"<string element>*" >> Formal comment ticket #360 filed; change ticket #361 filed. >> >> I don't think this idea will fly, because no existing implementations >> provide it. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Scheme-reports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
