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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1993 19:00:35 +0200."
Subject: Re: Another vote for a built-in read function
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 1993 14:17:58 -0400


 |The last thing rc needs is MORE quoting. One of the core design features
 |is that the quoting rules are simple, regular, predictable, and minimal;
 |adding \ as another quoting operator is none of the above.

It remains simple and predictable, it's just not minimal anymore.
But since it is actually a question of convenience, I could think about
other solutions (e.g. automatic quoting of '=' and '#' in readline(),
if I'm really desperate :)

 |                                                           If we're going
 |to make any changes to quoting, we should remove \'s special magic at the
 |end of lines.

Well, at least it would be consistent. More or less assuming that the
backslash won't make it, it is worth considering.

But what about a builtin read function ?

	Gert-Jan

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