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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Fetch string from comment
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:40:04 GMT
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mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:
>I am not a fan of S\" TYPE as it tends to move the parsing and
>interpretation problems to parts of the code / library that may
>not be prepared for it, or where it would be quite an overhead
>to anticipate every present and future possibility.

Can you elaborate on that, especially about the overhead?

>For instance,
>having a backspace in a string has no obvious meaning in most
>of the system code

Nobody forces you you to use \b if it's inappropriate.

>and an application can simply redefine BS
>to have it do what is necessary.

One would have to define BS first; otherwise you cannot redefine it.
What is BS supposed to do, and what is redefining BS supposed to
achieve?

- anton
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