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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 1 Oct 2024 01:26:50 GMT
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:36:50 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> It's always struck me as funny that nobody *ever* seems to use the ASCII
> control characters that already exist for record demarcation for that
> purpose; aside from CR/LF/tab/NUL, and BEL/SUB/ESC in interactive-
> terminal contexts, the whole 0x00-0x1F range might as well not exist.
> Not that it'd be a conspicuously *good* idea, but I've always harbored
> an impish desire to devise a format that makes use of the rest in some
> way that maps relatively logically to the original intent/description...

We use 0x1e, 0x1f, and a few others for field and record separators 
internally. It's an excellent idea if you're moving user entered comments 
around the system. You want something that the users won't easily have 
access to.