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2 points by fallintothis 5217 days ago | link | parent

Not quite sure (I suspect it's a bug), but it seems like it has to do with the implementation of make-readtable (which brackets.scm uses).

  $ mzscheme
  Welcome to MzScheme v4.2.1 [3m], Copyright (c) 2004-2009 PLT Scheme Inc.
  > (parameterize ((current-readtable #f)) (read))
  x`y ; read in as two items
  x
  > y
  > (parameterize ((current-readtable (make-readtable #f))) (read))
  x`y ; read in as one symbol
  |x`y|
For braver people than me, you might check the source at http://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/src/racket/src/read....