Subject: readable syntax for control characters in strings From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1996/10/29 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3055584571840173@naggum.no> would an ANSI Common Lisp implementation that allowed the single-escape character followed by a character other than the single-escape character or the double-quote in string literals to mean something other than that character be conforming? example: according to the specification: "foo\nbar" is interpreted as a 7-character string whose fourth element is #\n. would an implementation that returned a string whose fourth element were #\Newline be conforming? #\Erik -- Those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it.