Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo / gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 6, 2006, at 7:29 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
>
>> Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo / gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Vincent Isambart wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Here they are, translations of chapter 3, 4 and 6 of the Ruby
>>>> Hacking Guide!
>>>> We know the translation is far from being perfect, and we welcome
>>>> any
>>>> correction on the text or diagrams of any chapter (even chapter 2).
>>>> Please send them as patches (attached to the mail, not just in the
>>>> body of the message) on the rhg-discussion mailing list
>>>> (http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rhg-discussion). The patches
>>>> should be done against the text files in the SVN repository
>>>> (http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=1387).
>>>
>>> Thanks! I just starting reading and, and found this gem of an
>>> explanation for Qnil:
>>>
>>>> By the way, what is the ¡ÆQ¡Ç of Qnil? ¡ÆR¡Ç I would have understood
>>>> but why ¡ÆQ¡Ç? When I asked, the answer was ¡ÈBecause it¡Çs like that
>>>> in Emacs¡É. I did not have the fun answer I was expecting¡Ä
>>> Me either!
>>
>> Same reason ?x is used for character codes, by the way. ;-)
>>
> Whatever happened to #\x ??

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#")

I'm not sure where the ?x really orginates from, MacLisp didn't
support it, and it meant something different in TECO.

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