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Subject: Re: Fetch string from comment
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 20:16:33 +1100
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On 5/03/2025 6:57 pm, mhx wrote:
> ... 
> 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.

What finally drove me to implement escapes was this:

 : RC$ ( -- a n )  \ row/col string
   bin? if  s" \00"  end  s" 000" drop #asc ;

Every other way of doing it looked like a hack.  ... And it solved
the embedded double-quote problem.