Subject: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("
From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:12:36 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Rationale: GUILE already supports a number of escapes not defined in the
Scheme standard.  Emacs Lisp modes and derivative modes treat opening
parens in the first column of a file specially, resynchronizing function
boundaries.  The respective manual entry states:

<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Left-Margin-Paren.html>

Being able to escape opening parens makes it possible to write
Emacs-friendly Guile code.

-- 
David Kastrup