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Re: String syntax changed?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: String syntax changed? |
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Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:37:45 -0500 |
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Roland Orre <address@hidden> wrote:
> (begin (display "$\\scriptstyle{P(A\|D)}$") (newline))
...
> ERROR: #<unknown port>:1:38: illegal character in escape sequence: #\|
> ABORT: (read-error)
1.7 is more strict than 1.6 about unrecognized escaped characters.
> ERROR: Unbound variable: D
> ABORT: (unbound-variable)
Hm. With different string contents, this could have done something
dangerous. I'm not sure what could have been done about it, though.
> I don't understand. Can someone hint me about documentation about this?
I don't think it was ever documented that unnecessary backslashes were
allowed.
paul