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Re: st: Reply: Setting default .do file template?
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Reply: Setting default .do file template?
Date
Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:32:56 +0100
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Rebecca Pope wrote:
> Out of curiosity, can you explain why you have -local file: list clean
> file- in the program? I tracked it down in the manual & read that
> -list clean- is an extended macro function to minimally adorn the
> elements of, in this case, "file". I understand this to mean removing
> all unnecessary quotation marks. For general programming edification,
> what do you gain by doing this?
I am probably being overcautious: I was worried about what would
happen when someone specified `""filename""'.
-- Maarten
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