[r6rs-discuss] Linefeed and Line Endings

[Michael Sperber]

Alan Watson <alan at alan-watson.org> writes:

> 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:

Indeed - that's a bug.  It's supposed to be \<line ending>.

> 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).

No, because of the bug.  \<line ending> means nothing.  However, a <line
ending> by itself stands for linefeed.

> However, I interpret this as referring only to line endings that are
> "outside an escape sequence". 

Right.  I'll try to clarify.

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