Re: [Chicken-users] Backslash-symbol changed from \ to \\ between 4.5.0 and 4.6.0

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Backslash-symbol changed from \ to \\ between 
4.5.0 and 4.6.0
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:35:33 +0200

> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:45:05PM -0500, Peter Danenberg wrote:
>> Quoth Peter Danenberg on Pungenday, the 59th of Bureaucracy:
>> > [C]an we revert to the old behaviour, or can I revert locally by
>> > using `set-read-syntax!'?
>> 
>> I didn't see any mention of this change to the reader in NEWS; was it
>> intentional?
> 
> There's been some work done on reading escaped/quoted literals to
> improve our SRFI-88 support (see ticket #322).  It looks like the
> preliminary changes (the ticket hasn't been closed yet) have
> (accidentally?) been integrated:
> 

This change is intentional. `\' is now a (single) escape character.
The reading of keywords is indeed incomplete, yet.


cheers,
felix