Guile supports the R7RS idiom whereby this: "foo\ bar"
reads as "foobar" In the R6RS, this syntax is specified as allowing intraline whitespace (space, tab, and anything Unicode with category Zs) after the \ but before the newline. However in Guile we don't support this and signal an error instead ("illegal character in escape sequence: #\space"). Probably we should relax this restriction and allow intraline whitespace after the \ and before the newline.