Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline robustness

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In local.unid.arch, you wrote:
>> It would be nice to support different separators besides "$". Actually $
>> breaks many scripting languages and imposes that you should be able to
>> disable it in this case.
> 
> The arch tag will become more ambiguous with different separators.
> 
> But there is nothing wrong with using only $, because it can be
> easily quoted in scripting languages.  And the $ character is used
> by RCS quite a long time and has no problem with it.

How do you "quote" it? When writing perl you have to remember to not
write lines like this:

  $id = $something;

Here $id$ is expanded, causing your code to be damaged. Certainly, I
don't want to remember to "quote" those lines when writing.

>> [wow, gnu mail servers are LAGGED, about 7 hours of delay...]
> 
> It's not too much: seems, on peak they lagged by about 2 days.

I see. They seems to be responsive now.

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