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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl to dxforth@gmail.com   
   Re: Fetch string from comment   
   06 Mar 25 12:14:07   
   
   In article <74a5b61b65b89c594e3f653a0266dc874d6cc739@i2pn2.org>,   
   dxf   wrote:   
   >On 5/03/2025 6:57 pm, mhx wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >> I am not a fan of S\" TYPE as it tends to move the parsing and   
   >> interpretation problems to parts of the code / library that may   
   >> not be prepared for it, or where it would be quite an overhead   
   >> to anticipate every present and future possibility.   
   >   
   >What finally drove me to implement escapes was this:   
   >   
   > : RC$ ( -- a n )  \ row/col string   
   >   bin? if  s" \00"  end  s" 000" drop #asc ;   
   >   
   >Every other way of doing it looked like a hack.  ... And it solved   
   >the embedded double-quote problem.   
      
   I don't understand this.   
   "every other way to do what?".   
   ( -- a n ) i s not a specification.   
   If you introduce a word like RC$ tell us what it is supposed to   
   do.   
      
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