On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 21:04:02 +0200, Juerd wrote:
> Yuval Kogman skribis 2005-10-18 20:38 (+0200):
> >     the function encode has the type Unsafe -> Safe
> 
> I read the article before. What occurred to me then did so again now.
> What exactly do Unsafe and Safe mean? Safe for *what*?

That was just a naive example - the words "Unsafe" and "Safe" are
user defined, and are chosen on a case by case basis in their app.

> One problem still is that once something is encoded, quoted or escaped
> it can't always be easily re-encoded. Encoding functions should therefor
> check if a variable does safe::(none()) and warn or fail if so.

I don't see how this relates to the OP, or why encoding functions
should implement it like this.

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