Re: [9front] [PATCH] Update hpost to use -r header like hget

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>:
> 
> The whole thing is indeed an interesting challenge, especially because rc 
> is handling items and lists so special. Spaces don't necessarily separate 
> strings, items with spaces are not always quoted, etc. For example, the 
> visual string "this is a string" is not always a list with 3 strings. It 
> could also be a list with two or only one string.

there's no sometimes about it, and there aren't any funny rules.

rc never requotes something behind your back; it parses it once,
and keeps it parsed. evaluating the output of `{} is the place
where it parses it.

All other times, it stays split.

> "this is a string" is not always a list with 3 strings.

no, that's always a string with 4 strings:

	'"this'
	'is'
	'a'
	'string"'

Note that " is not a special character, so it doesn't
affect string splitting. I suspect you meant

	'this is a string'

which is *always* a single string to rc.