Re: escaping vs. quoting

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

But making quoting a universal standard, while retaining existing escaping scheme for dollars, semis, and commas, requires care. There are many special cases, various pitfalls, and much room for users to abuse them. If having message target or message selector in quotes does not really scare me, what about resolving any combination of quoted and escaped or not escaped dollars, semis, and commas? Maybe it is easy, but I am lost here...

Indeed, I almost went insane that way once trying to get commas and semis to work in Max... then Zicarelli somehow added a quoting feature ON TOP of that for Cycling74. I'd like to find something simple this time...

cheers Miller