Re: Fetch string from comment

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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