[RadiozRadioz]

I completely understand the concept, I really do. I'm just struggling to work out where the original disagreement came from, I think it's completely my fault for not articulating myself properly, thank you for your patience. I'm going to annotate my original comment here with clarification on what I originally meant:

Because, while you always _should_ implement the proper escaping [in order to extract the information you need from CSV/TSV files that you have received from an external source that produces correctly-formatted CSV/TSV files], that takes [human effort]. Not a large amount of [human effort], but more than zero. In many cases [the data stored in CSV/TSV representation] doesn't contain commas or tabs, so you can [extract the data from the file] the super simple way [by implementing a naiive CSV/TSV-like parser that just happens to work for a subset of CSV files that don't contain escaping] and get back that time. [In doing this, you have extracted the information you need from the file, but you have not done the work to implement a real CSV/TSV parser. You have implemented a parser for a mystery format, misused it on a CSV/TSV file, but it happened to work and you got the data you needed]. There are more cases where data [in the CSV/TSV file you got from an external source] is tabless than commaless, so [if the external source happens to provide you a TSV file instead of a CSV file, this] affords you more opportunities to [be able to misuse use your TSV-like parser on the TSV file and still get the data you need, giving you a] quick and dirty timesave when you need [an immediate] solution [where you lack the time to get a real CSV/TSV parser and can tolerate the inherent lack of safety in using a CSV/TSV-like parser on a CSV/TSV].

[SahAssar]

> I think it's completely my fault for not articulating myself properly, thank you for your patience.

Not at all, and thank you for your patience and engaging this deep!

I think the disagreement came from different people. I initially tried to question why /u/guidedlight thought a certain delimiter would be easier/simpler just because it was less common and then we went down a rabbit hole of "what is a CSV/TSV".

I agree with you and I think there are many use-cases for not-as-full CSV/TSV parsers/encoders. My main objection was calling a CSV/TSV implementation a CSV/TSV implementation when it clearly skipped a lot of parts (while it can of course parse a lot of files without those parts). I'd like to call those simpler formats something other than CSV/TSV, but that ship has sailed.

So I think it seems like we are on the same page.