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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Quoting special characters |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:53:16 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 |
On 02/25/2014 10:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
the encoding is an implementation detail so not really relevant to the UI.
This reminds me of the quadrigraphs of Autoconf, which are used for a similar purpose. Unlike your proposal, they are visible to the user; this tends to make things easier to follow when debugging. Perhaps 'make' could steal from their syntax.
http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Quadrigraphs.html
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