If only we had some kind of standard language for marking things up that was extensible... and wasn't met with universal disapproval,
F On 12/07/06, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you guys consider the problem of newlines in content? > This is a good question. Implementing your own file format means you have a big-bag-o-quoting problems. How do you print a verbatim newline? What about a verbatim single quote? What about Unicode? What about a new line then "not ok - ++$counter"? :) http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html says: > > When another programmer wants to talk to a user interface, he has to > /quote/: convert his structured data into an unstructured sequence of > commands that the parser will, he hopes, convert back into the > original structured data. > > This situation is a recipe for disaster. The parser often has bugs: it > fails to handle some inputs according to the documented interface. The > quoter often has bugs: it produces outputs that do not have the right > meaning. Only on rare joyous occasions does it happen that the parser > and the quoter both misinterpret the interface in the same way. > Things to think about :) Regards, Jonathan Rockway
