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Re: Effect of CR in symbols
- To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-AI
- To: RWK at MIT-MC
- Subject: Re: Effect of CR in symbols
- From: BAK@MIT-AI
- From: GLS@MIT-AI
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 79 04:08:28 GMT
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 79 01:38:53 GMT
- Cc: (BUG LISP) at MIT-AI, GLS at MIT-AI
- Original-date: 10/23/79 00:08:28 EDT
- Original-date: 10/22/79 21:38:53 EDT
Some languages have an "un-slash" character which can be used to un-escape
a carriage return or tab or whatever. Suppose "\" to be such a character;
then writing
|Foobar\<cr>
\ \ this really bites the<cr>
\ \ BAG!|
would be the same as writing |Foobar this really bites the<cr>
BAG!|. I think Multics has such a character, for example. This
is so that one can split things across lines for readability.