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Re: [Chicken-hackers] read/write invariance of #!


From: Jim Ursetto
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] read/write invariance of #!
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:40:26 -0600

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 2:16 PM, Evan Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> I don't think this change fixes the example you gave as a "certain
> strange combination" in ticket #1572, i.e. (#! (foo bar)). ISTM that
> happens because any whitespace after a "#!" token causes the reader to
> skip everything until the end of the line (and the same goes for a
> forward slash); see the first clause at library.scm:4242:

That’s ok. With the change, #! will be written out as |#!|, which will be read 
back in as a symbol. The problem was #! being written out unquoted.

Jim


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