Few strata of geekery are more obsessive than regular-depression geekery. So let’s have some fun! In https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing I explain why using the usual backslash “\” for escaping is hellishly inconvenient in a current project and propose replacing it with one of «, —, “, ¶, §, or ~. This Friday, I’ll be running some polls tagged #unbackslash to let you all join in.
#software #regex
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2024-09-25 21:58:48
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