Re: Unquoted backslashes for identifier escapes?

"Mark Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood
<david.hopwood-mRVxzIiVagSlV3Ge8JjJtnfLna9zW77MtUK59QYPAWc@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Smalltalk uses # for symbol names. Perhaps
>
>  #"foo bar"
>  c.#"add(Component)"(d)

As with many shell/scripting languages, E uses # to begin a line
comment. This choice is entrenched -- we have many comments!

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