Re: ?\_ patch

[Andreas Schwab]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

|> In article <address@hidden>, Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
|> > I now lean toward the original solution of using ?\s.
|> 
|> I've just found that (eq 's '\s) => t.
|> 
|> But, as (eq 'e '\e) is also t, this is not a problem,
|> perhaps.

Symbols and characters have quite different quoting rules.  In symbols,
the backslash is always ignored except to make it syntactically different
from a number.

Andreas.

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