--- On Wed, 3/3/10, David Robinow <drobi...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: David Robinow <drobi...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Docstrings considered too complicated > To: python-list@python.org > Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 2:54 PM > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ed > Keith <e_...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > --- On Wed, 3/3/10, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > > >> They needed a way to tell where the end of the > information > >> was. Why > >> they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX > - End of > >> TeXt) or > >> even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is anyone's > guess. > > > > That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well > established, why no use one of them? I'd love to know what > they were thinking. > > There were numerous incompatible and primitive transfer > protocols in > those days. They probably wanted to pick something that was > NOT well > established so it would pass through without, for example, > causing End > Of Transmission.
That makes a lot of sense. -EdK Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list