[Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: Spaces in filenames

[Miles Bader]

Christian Thäter <address@hidden> writes:
> Thats exactly what i want to prevent. The escapes will be (un)escaped at
> I/O time and vice versa. The inner tla logic never sees escapes!

There are two syntaxes involved: space-separated tables, and escaped
filenames.  Clearly the un-escapifcation can't take place _before_ the
table-splitting, though it could happen at the same time.

In tla, maybe it's easier and cleaner to do both in the same code, I
don't know.

In many other tools (e.g., awk), it's easier to do them in separate
stages.

If '\ ' were used as the syntax for space, then the space-splitting
would have to be aware of escaping, which is very annoying and
inconvenient in tools like awk (and if you separate the
splitting/unescaping layers in tla, would involve adding unnecessary
knowledge of lower layers the splitting code).

Using some other syntax avoids this problem.

-MIles
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