[racket] function of | in reader
To amend that question: When reading Racket code, will "|" *always*
delimit either a symbol or a substring of a symbol?
Neil Van Dyke wrote at 06/26/2011 06:04 AM:
> When reading Racket code, will "|" *always* delimit a symbol, or can
> it cause something other than a symbol to be read?
>
> I thought "|" always delimited a symbol, but if so, then the
> documentation at
> "http://doc.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html#(part._default-readtable-dispatch)"
> seems obtuse:
>
>> | starts a subsequence of characters to be included verbatim in the
>> delimited sequence (i.e., they are never treated as delimiters, and
>> they are not case-folded when case-insensitivity is enabled); the
>> subsequence is terminated by another |, and neither the initial nor
>> terminating | is part of the subsequence.
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