Subject: Re: Avoiding unintentional variable capture From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/09/15 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3146422756758405@naggum.no> * Dorai Sitaram | CL and many Schemes use \ to escape the succeeding character, so the | symbol \ would be unusably verbose (|\\|). FWIW, \\ is sufficient. #:Erik