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["vladimir_uryvaev" <vovanius@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lorenzo" <lomarcan@...> wrote:
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> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "vladimir_uryvaev" <vovanius@> wrote:
> > And there's no more need in quotes! As whole string looks like single word for parser:
> > He\20said:\0A\22go\20away!\22
> > That is what I want to say through the thread =)
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> That way you lose A LOT in legibility... since you have to implement a quoting mechanism anyway you can let the space intact since it VERY common :D

Why should we worry about (human) legibility of *machine* written and read files? (so lets compare lib files and Shakespeare's poems in legibility)

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> Well, put it to extremes:
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> SGUgc2FpZDoKImdvIGF3YXkhIg==
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> (that's base64 if you didn't recognize it :P)
> Voila', no quoting anymore, just encoding :D
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Reduction ad absurdum is the way to ruin eny idea.