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Exercise 2.55 #4

Closed m66n closed 10 years ago

m66n commented 10 years ago

Should be

(car ''abracadabra)  ;; two single quotes

instead of

(car "abracadabra)  ;; one double quote
sarabander commented 10 years ago

Thanks for spotting it. The expression is correct in the source, but texinfo wrongly interprets it as closing double quote during compilation.

Your pointing out has pushed me to wrestle with a similar issue in the new version I've been working on. The problem has been that all the single quotes in Scheme listings were turned into curly "typographic" single quotes in PDF. This was a nuisance when copy-pasting to the Scheme REPL as it gave lots of errors.

After a day of failures, research, and experiments, I'm happy to announce that this illness is now cured. I will offer you a sneak peek to the new version: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-2S-gwdOpdac1pKWGlfalpsN0U/edit?usp=sharing (This is a temporary link until I upload the book to the repository.) The problem with exercise 2.55 has disappeared.

m66n commented 10 years ago

On 09/15/2013 07:15 PM, Andres Raba wrote:

Thanks for spotting it. The expression is correct in the source, but texinfo wrongly interprets it as closing double quote during compilation.

Your pointing out has pushed me to wrestle with a similar issue in the new version I've been working on. The problem has been that all the single quotes in Scheme listings were turned into curly "typographic" single quotes in PDF. This was a nuisance when copy-pasting to the Scheme REPL as it gave lots of errors.

After a day of failures, research, and experiments, I'm happy to announce that this illness is now cured. I will offer you a sneak peek to the new version: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-2S-gwdOpdac1pKWGlfalpsN0U/edit?usp=sharing (This is a temporary link until I upload the book to the repository.) The problem with exercise 2.55 has disappeared.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/issues/4#issuecomment-24482755.

The new version looks beautiful. I most definitely appreciate the work you've done. SICP is such a valuable resource.

sarabander commented 10 years ago

Thanks!

sarabander commented 10 years ago

The new version is up!