[plt-scheme] How to get the reader to accept a single backslash?

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 3 09:39:24 EDT 2007

Ouch.

On 9/3/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Sep  3, Robby Findler wrote:
> > On 9/2/07, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> > > On 9/2/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > > > You're confusing the contents of the string and how the string prints
> > > > out in the REPL.
> > >
> > > I see. Those examples were also helpful. Part of my confusion, too,
> > > was in translating that fact into writing regular expressions.
> >
> > Oh, yes. Writing regular expressions (or writing latex code, as it
> > turns out) can be confusing when you're putting it into strings.
> > Easy to make mistakes.
>
> The real fun is writing regexps to deal with latex files, or using
> regexps to tweak regexps...
>
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>


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