[plt-scheme] here-string

From: Bruce Hauman (bhauman at cs.wcu.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 6 12:40:29 EST 2004

Felix Klock's PLT scheme proxy wrote:
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> 
> Bruce-
> 
> I don't think that's right...
> 
> At least according to guile, here-strings don't require backslashes to 
> be backslashified.
> 
> (which makes them amazingly useful when you really really want to write 
> down literal text in a WYSWYG form)
> 
> See:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/guile/1997-10/msg00228.html
> 

Oops! Forgot about those!

Please mentally add that to the example.

I was mostly pointing out the behavior of newlines in
strings just in case David didn't know.

Thanks Felix!

-Bruce


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