[ sisc-Bugs-735969 ] read/write invariance broken for some symbols

Bugs item #735969, was opened at 2003-05-11 03:01
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Matthias Radestock (mradestock)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: read/write invariance broken for some symbols

Initial Comment:
(let ([x (string->symbol "1")])
  (eq? (with-input-from-string
           (with-output-to-string
               (lambda () (write x)))
         (lambda () (read)))
       x))
;=> '#f

|string->symbol| returns a symbol. |write| renders this
as \1 which |read| reads as the *number* 1.

One way to fix this would be to write |\1| instead, but
I don't know how difficult this would be and whether it
would break anything else.


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