Re: evaluating numbers

[Richard Stallman]

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  > We could just as easily enclose the name in quotes.

That might complicate Lisp mode parsing of Lisp code, if we give more
meanings to quotes.  For instance, if we want the \N syntax to be used
inside a string constant, using doublequotes for this would cause complicaions.
Using singlequotes would cause other complications.
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