[hashcash] Re: new format tweak coming...

Adam Back wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:07:48AM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> 
>>which means the only thing you really need to quote is the quote 
>>character itself.  I was thinking that it might be possible to instead 
>>use something like two types of quotes so that you could have quoted 
>>strings within using the "other" form but then you could have both 
>>quotes within a quoted strings if you were truly unlucky.
> 
> 
> Yes I had come to think the same thing ... re "'" or '"' as the two
> choices, and this is the "perl" thing, plus "\"'" and '"'\'
> 
> Cool.  So the usual case should be nice and clean for most
> applications and there are no restrictions.  I was also thinking the
> quotes should be optional.  So you only need to quote if you're trying
> to protect =.

This is icky - whatever format you use should, IMO, be regex friendly, 
and trivial to parse. This is neither. I'd vote for URL encoding.

Cheers,

Ben.

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