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What's the difference between quoted and escaped delimiters? (Keeping in mind that escaping sequences can themselves be escaped, ad infinitum. You can't simply

by wahern 5y ago

What's the difference between quoted and escaped delimiters? (Keeping in mind that escaping sequences can themselves be escaped, ad infinitum. You can't simply seek to an escape sequence and depend algorithmically on a small, fixed lookbehind.)

dataflow 5y ago
I think the parent that if newlines were encoded as "\n" (with a backslash) then you could always split on (actual) newlines and process them in parallel without having to tokenize the quote first.
- LeonB 5y ago
  Yep that’s exactly it.