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2 Syntax  2.3 Interpretation of Tokens 2.3.1 Numbers as Tokens 2.3.1.1 Potential Numbers as Tokens
2.3.1.1.1 Escape Characters and Potential Numbers
A potential number cannot contain any escape
characters. An escape character robs the following
character of all syntactic qualities, forcing it to be strictly
alphabetic2 and therefore unsuitable for use in a
potential number. For example, all of the following
representations are interpreted as symbols, not numbers:
\256 25\64 1.0\E6 |100| 3\.14159 |3/4| 3\/4 5||
In each case, removing the escape character (or characters)
would
cause the token to be a potential number.
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