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 More details are given in the documentation for the dwim operator.
 
+.SS Regular Expressions
+
+In TXR Lisp, the / character can occur in symbol names, and the / token
+is a symbol. Therefore the /regex/ syntax is absent, replaced with the
+#/regex/ syntax.
+
 .SS Lisp Operators
 
 When the first element of a compound expression is an operator symbol,