Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!opal!net From: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Unknown symbol in Elk Message-ID: <2293@kraftbus.opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: 2 Dec 90 11:52:50 GMT References: Reply-To: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 11 In article vladimir@prosper.EBB.Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir G. Ivanovic) writes: > What does the symbol '#v' mean in the following program from a test in the Elk > 1.2 distribution? Both R3RS and the Elk Reference Manual are silent about > '#v'. MacScheme 2.0 doesn't like it, but Elk happily consumes it. It's the non-printing object. By the way, a more portable way to obtain a non-printing object (at least when printed with "display") is (string->symbol ""). -- Oliver Laumann net@TUB.BITNET net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de net@tub.UUCP Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com