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Re: inconsistent field splitting
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: inconsistent field splitting |
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Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:00:23 +0200 |
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Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry but I am not interested at all in how the current implementation
> works. I am only wondering why it was *designed* like this.
A variable can only contain a single string of characters. There is
nothing at all to split.
> "Everything makes sense" is a nice feature in programming language
> design but extremely low-priority compared to consistency.
There is no inconsistency here.
Andreas.
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Re: inconsistent field splitting, Marc Herbert, 2010/08/19