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For ASCII delimiters, forbidding ASCII delimiters in data is practical. Data formats that can't handle recursion are never practical. They only work until they
by tbrownaw 13y ago
For ASCII delimiters, forbidding ASCII delimiters in data is practical.
Data formats that can't handle recursion are never practical. They only work until they don't, at which point they're entrenched and impossible to replace.
- mantrax3 13y agoYou may have heard about spreadsheets or relational databases...
- tbrownaw 13y agoYes. I've seen spreadsheets where some of the cells contain CSV data. I've heard recent news of relational databases adding support for JSON columns and seen them used to store XML, and know that a LOB field could be used to store an image of another database. I've seen hierarchical key/document databases which contain other hierarchical key/document databases (and relational databases, and anything else you can imagine).