Subject: bug#13644: closed (Re: bug#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "(")

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:07:02 +0000

Your bug report

#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("

which was filed against the guile package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#13644: String read syntax should allow "\(" to mean "("
From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
To: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:05:53 -0400
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I went ahead and pushed this to stable-2.0, commit
5af307de43e4b65eec7f235b48a8908f2a00f134.  It'll be in Guile 2.0.12.
I'm closing this ticket.

     Thanks,
       Mark

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
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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.

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David Kastrup