23 May
2005
23 May
'05
7:38 p.m.
a much better delimiting character
for anything you do is the vertical line | because it rarely if ever shows
up in text either machine generated or hand-written
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There are four of them in your .signature
24 May
24 May
9:42 a.m.
>>>> "Al" == Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> writes:
> a much better delimiting character for anything
you do is the
> vertical line | because it rarely if ever shows up in text either
> machine generated or hand-written
Al> There are four of them in your .signature
:-) Not only that, but no matter what character you pick you must
define an escape scheme in case that character does appear. Given
that you've done this, the choice of character no longer matters
(unless saving bits is an issue -- in which case you're better off
looking at compression algorithms).
paul
5:06 p.m.
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Al Kossow wrote:
a much better delimiting character
for anything you do is the vertical line | because it rarely if ever shows
up in text either machine generated or hand-written
--
There are four of them in your .signature
Yes, because they are delimiting the fields in my signature of course.
:)
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