slack1
2018-4-23 04:34:45
Would people say that ()
, '
, and #
are the main default privileged symbols in Racket?
lexi.lambda
2018-4-23 04:41:40
I’m not sure I would call them that. The full set of built-in delimiter characters also includes [
, ]
, {
, }
, "
, ,
, ;
, and backtick, which slack formatting does not allow me to easily include in a message. All of those are equally special according to the default readtable.
slack1
2018-4-23 04:42:03
ahh I see thankss
slack1
2018-4-23 04:42:09
I was definitely missing those
lexi.lambda
2018-4-23 04:45:26
\|
and \
are also special characters when used for escaping symbols, and .
is special when used for pair notation or infix syntax.