Re: Fetch string from comment

On 6/03/2025 10:14 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

In article <74a5b61b65b89c594e3f653a0266dc874d6cc739@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

 
I don't understand this.
"every other way to do what?".
( -- a n ) i s not a specification.
If you introduce a word like RC$ tell us what it is supposed to
do.

The function in question is s" \00" which returns an adr/len string
consisting of one byte whose value is $00.