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From: mhx@iae.nl (mhx)
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Subject: Re: Fetch string from comment
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 07:57:24 +0000
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For the past 30 years, I got by with having .~ in addition to ." .
The word .~ does the same ." but uses `~` as its delimiter.
Most of my uses are served by judicious switching between ."
and .~ .

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. For instance,
having a backspace in a string has no obvious meaning in most
of the system code, and an application can simply redefine BS
to have it do what is necessary.

-marcel