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Re: PATHNAME-PRINT-READ, v1



    Date: 14 Mar 89 12:32 PST
    From: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM

    If this is going to be discussed at the X3j13 meeting, we should have
    a new version with all of the various additions to current practice
    and discussions appended.
    
    pierson says:
    KCL uses #"..."
    
Absolutely true.  However I don't approve of it for several reasons:

    #P is more prevalent

    Issue: PRETTY-PRINT-INTERFACE puts #"..." to a better use.  This
    is relevant for those of us who will use Water's pretty printer
    whether or not the issue passes.

    #"..." is just too good a "name" to be reserved for pathname syntax.