[Ecls-list] compiler problems

[Edi Weitz]

"Rolf Wester" <wester at ilt.fraunhofer.de> writes:

> 2. The characters #\Bell and #\Escape result in an  
>     "NIL is an illegal character name" error

According to 13.1.7 of the ANSI standard a conforming implementation
is only required to support #\Newline and #\Space.

#\Rubout, #\Page, #\Tab, #\Backspace, #\Return, and #\Linefeed are
considered to be semi-standard. There's no mention of #\Bell or
#\Escape there, so I think portable code should not use these
character names.

Cheers,
Edi.