RE: [Yaml-core] Escaping double quotes

[Oren Ben-K. <or...@ri...>]

Brian Ingerson [mailto:in...@tt...] wrote:
> I have a rather minor request. I would like to escape double 
> quotes using ""
> instead of \". It would give a more consistent feel to our 
> single quoted
> counterpart - ''. I know we do it the current way because 
> we're already using
> backslash escaping, but consider that all the escapes (save 
> \\) are for
> unprintables (C0/C1) or unicode.

Actually, one can also quote printables ('\ ' and '\_' for SP and NBSP, and
of course \0x20 etc.).

Not that I feel that strongly about it, but I just don't see what "" buys us
- certainly not consistency. In ".." \ is used for all escaping - that's
consistent.

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki