Lots of people like to use backslash escaping, and you are so used to it that you used it in your spec even though it leaves the ambiguity of whether \n and \r

Lots of people like to use backslash escaping, and you are so used to it that you used it in your spec even though it leaves the ambiguity of whether \n and \r are literal or the LF and CR characters. I feel like it's perfectly expressing how it "contains the seeds of its own destruction". How much data expresses a double quote as "\"" instead of """"? It would be easy to use CSV if you never did any data interchange with it.