[hashcash] Re: new format tweak coming...
- From: Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:28:16 +0000
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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