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Re: New escape method proposal (was: Re: Possible solution for special c
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: New escape method proposal (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths) |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:28:13 +0300 |
> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: 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.
> >
> > 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?
I'm sorry, it is hard to remember those situations from the distance
of few weeks. Could you perhaps recap?