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0 pointsthayne1y ago0 comments

But a comma is much more likely to need to be escaped.

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It's good for a delimiter to be uncommon in the data, so that you don't have to use your escaping mechanism too much.

This is a different thing altogether from using "disallowed" control characters, which is an attempt to avoid escaping altogether - an attempt which I was arguing is doomed to fail.

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0 pointsthayne1y ago0 comments

But a comma is much more likely to need to be escaped.

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mjw_byrne1y ago

It's good for a delimiter to be uncommon in the data, so that you don't have to use your escaping mechanism too much.

This is a different thing altogether from using "disallowed" control characters, which is an attempt to avoid escaping altogether - an attempt which I was arguing is doomed to fail.

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