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by scott_s 3935 days ago
Agreed with zimpenfish; it's a nice sounding adage, but often we have to do things in code because of non-local reasons. We have to adapt to formats we don't control, or edge cases elsewhere in the system, and there's just no way to embed in the variables and function names that the consumer of this data expects quotes stripped off of strings, so we had better do it here.