Re: defining new character names?

[Keith Wright]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Marius Vollmer <address@hidden>
> 
> "Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'd like to be able to do something like this:
> > 
> > (define-character "paren-close" #\051) ; 051 is ")"
> >   and then later
> > (string-index line #\paren-close)
> 
> Not currently, but I think it's a good idea.

(A) Only in the context of a general mechanism to define constants.
(B) The double quotes around "paren-close" in the definition
     are surely wrong.

> > The reason i'd like to do this is that inserting #\) in the
> > scheme file makes the vim "%" command unusable over those
> > blocks
> 
> vim should be fixed then, no? ;)

Maybe so.  Not my job.

In the meantime, why not say
  (define close-char #\( ) % define )
  (string-index line close-char)

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