SPECS: josm.spec - why people never use 'EOF' instead?
Jacek Konieczny
jajcus at jajcus.net
Thu Apr 23 14:43:06 CEST 2009
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:44:05PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009 14:18:12 Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> > As they do not remember exact syntax and would have to look it up? ;)
> > As it looks uglier? As it needs more characters (two apostrophes instead
> > of one backslash)?
>
> because you can then embed the real script (update the spec with it), without
> need to re-escape things (seen too many mistakes in this interpolation
> not-escaping area).
Yes, I know such syntax is available and I would use it, for sure, for
anything more than one "$" to escape.
Greets,
Jacek
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