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

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:35:33AM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> I think the backslash shouldn't have any special meaning except in
> quoted symbols.  AFAIK there's nothing in R5RS to support this, but then
> there's nothing in R5RS to support a backslash in symbols at all..

On that note, perhaps you shouldn't be using '\ at all since it's not
allowed by the RnRS (maybe Chicken should throw a syntax error)

For something that works in all versions of Chicken, try quoting it:
'|\\|

Cheers,
Peter
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