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

[Douglas Philips]

On Saturday, Aug 23, 2003, at 22:41 US/Eastern, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:06:37PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Well as I understand it the outstanding proposal (by tom) is to have 
> > arch-id:
> > only consider things within double-quotes as significant.  That gives 
> > the
> > user freedom to choose a tag that has no `weird' characters (they 
> > could do
> > basically do that with arch-tag: too, except for the problem of the 
> > comment
> > end-delimiter in C).
>
> Cool. I like this proposal.  Will the tags inside "" be standard C
> strings, with all the usual escapes?  \n, \r, \t, \0, \\, etc?

Ah, Ok, as another fresh newbie, what would be the advantage to that? 
Aren't the tags supposed to be both readable and useful to arch/tla? 
What does it help to pretend that they're strings. Next thing you'll be 
asking for printf escapes too! ;-) ;-)

Actually, that tla is written in C shouldn't necessarily overly 
influence its external appearance. I'm working on projects using other 
languages, so C-centricity is a turn off.

Just my buck two-fitty,
   <D\'gou