On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:29:26PM -0700, David Olbersen wrote:
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Russ Allbery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> -> Just out of curiosity, and I'm not objecting to this RFC, has anyone
> -> reading this mailing list actually intentionally used a vertical tab for
> -> something related to its supposed purpose in the past ten years?
>
> I don't even know what a vertical tab is, it doesn't sound like anything
> very useful.
I've never used one, and I doubt I will (apart from including it in
"\r\t\f\v \n" in any whitespace in parsing code I write in C)
My reasoning was that one of the criticisms usually levelled against perl by
its detractors was that it is confusing because there are so many special
cases and irregularities. In my opinion "Double quoted strings have all the C
backslash constructions (except \v)" is an irregularity, not a feature. Every
non-useful irregularity removed aids advocacy, teaching and documenting,
without hindering programming.
Nicholas Clark
