Making the two the same seems like a no-brainer to me. A parameterised contexts means that users have to learn two contexts which are different only for historical reasons.

Steve

On 7 May 2012, at 15:49, Alan Watson wrote:

>>>> The only difference is that \" is permitted within vertical lines:
>>>> (eq? |"| |\"|) => #t.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> Simplicity and uniformity.
>>
>> I have filed ticket #390 to allow \| in strings as well.  That way, there
>> can be just one escaping/unescaping procedure for both strings and symbols.
>
> This seems to be an unnecessary change. There can be one procedure for both strings and symbols even if \" is not allowed in symbols and \| not allowed in strings; it just has to take the delimiter as an argument.
>
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>
> Alan
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