[r6rs-discuss] Linefeed and Line Endings

[Alan Watson]

I think I see what is confusing us.

In the list of valid escapes in 4.2.7 we have "\<linefeed>". Then second 
next paragraph says:

"Any other character in a string after a backslash is an error. Except 
for a line ending, any character outside of an escape sequence and not a 
doublequote stands for itself in the string literal. [...] A line ending 
stands for a linefeed character."

I think you believe that the last sentence of this paragraph means that 
"\<line ending>" should be interpreted as "\<linefeed>", and this in 
turn is defined as a valid escape (for nothing).

However, I interpret this as referring only to line endings that are 
"outside an escape sequence". Therefore, I do not see a definition for, 
for example, "\<next line>", and so I interpret this as an error 
according to the first sentence of the paragraph I quoted above.

Is this any clearer?

Regards,

Alan