On 4/17/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> Garrett Rooney writes:
> > On 4/16/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> >
> > > We could use spaces and require spaces to be escaped if that improves
> > > readability. (I guess my notion of readability is somewhat different
> > > than others'). I don't have a strong opinion here, but I think it is
> > > useful to use different separators for fields and records. Note that
> > > there is no known count of fields for the sake of extensibility.
> >
> > Spaces might help, because at least then when an editor wraps the line
> > it has a place to break... I still think newlines would work best
> > though.
> >
>
> How do you determine the end of a record when empty lines may be both empty
> fields and the end of the record?
I was assuming that each entry had a fixed number of fields or
something like that. If not, I imagine we could include some specific
character as the end of entry marker...
> (I think the best way to improve readability is a pretty-printing
> script or something like s/|/\n/, but I'm not really in love with the
> pipe characters either:-)
Oh sure, but I'd prefer if people could just look at the entries
directly without having to mess with them.
-garrett
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Received on Mon Apr 17 22:04:58 2006