Re: xTalk: Re: UFP: Delimiters: A new (better, IMO) idea

[Anonymous]

At 5:59 PM +0200 on 6/18/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> I have to admit that re-reading this I don't get what the interpreter
>would do when I say delimiter "a", "b" or "c" ??? Three delimiters at
>once??? Huh?

put item 3 (delim="/" or ":" or "\") of "hello:cruel/world\!"

would be 3.

(If you want an existing example, think about what a "word" is)


> What's so painful about multi-character delimiters? OK, you need to
>account for more than a single char, but it isn't really a problem, right?

It's a lot slower.