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Re: [text] On the value of idempotent string escape methods?

I am trying to see how having the proposed unescape() method leads to an a useful escape method. E.g. clearly unescape("&") would evaluate to "&". So would unescape("&"). That means the proposed escape() method would also have the same output for "&" and "&". I think a better approach f