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Re: New escape method proposal (was: Re: Possible solution for special c
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Paul Smith |
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Re: New escape method proposal (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths) |
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Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:09:11 -0400 |
On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 08:22 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Any blurring of the lines between these two characters would lead to
> > more confusion than the alternative, IMO.
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> I'm questioning the need to have this distinction exposed to
> user-land.
There are situations (as shown in my previous emails) where the user
wants to treat the escaped characters in a string differently from
unescaped characters. In this case the distinction must be exposed.
How should we make that possible?