Re: code critique

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Richard M Kreuter <kreuter@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

There are NO other character in the ASCII character set. There
are a few control codes in the ASCII codes.

ANSI Common Lisp clearly classifies as characters a handful of
entities that you're discounting: Backspace, Tab, Linefeed, Page,
Return, and Rubout.

Yes, and interestingly, there's not a 1-1 correspondance between some
of these "characters" and the ASCII codes used to represent them,
since the #\newline "character" can correspond to a sequence of TWO
ASCII codes: #(13 10).

This is precisely why I left Newline out of that list. Backspace,
Tab, Linefeed, Page, Return, and Rubout, intuitively map bijectively
to ASCII's bs, ht, nl, np, cr, and del, respectively.
.

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