On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> Off the top of my head, how about
> foo = "something;something else;and another" separator ;
> or similar? The disadvantage is that it looks a bit ugly (you have to
> look at the end to see what the separator is). The advantage is that it
> ought to be completely backward compatible since presumably nothing has
> ever looked passed the final quote before.
But you don't have to use quotes! You could always say
local_domains = a:b:c
and with the new change I've proposed you can now say
local_domains = a:\
b:\
c
Another objection is that it complicates things no end. Every single
string option would have to store its separator as well as its data.
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