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Re: Proposed: stop subjecting right-hand sides of `char` family requests


From: Dave Kemper
Subject: Re: Proposed: stop subjecting right-hand sides of `char` family requests to character translation
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 05:10:11 -0500

On 4/1/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 2023-04-01T19:45:19-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
>> What does .char do for you that .ds doesn't?
>
> I don't remember where I saw this trick, but you can use a
> `char`-defined object as a margin character, and I suppose just about
> anywhere else the language syntax is accepting of an atomic character.

Yes, I find it handy to be able to set cflags values on .char-defined
characters.



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