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by Nihilartikel 684 days ago
I've found the Unicode cat emoji to be an effective delimiter to avoid escaping more common chars in my cat-separated-value artifacts.

Of course the cat emoji is escaped by the puppy emoji if it occurs in a value. The puppy emoji escapes itself when needed.

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There is https://github.com/SixArm/usv which is exactly that, but with special unicode characters
In the 80's i thought we should have an entire character set just for code. While never implemented the idea arguably aged well.

I also considered a dedicated keyboard like apl just to be dense about it.

Have each character signed by the keyboard so that we have proof by whoem it was typed and when.

People who dont work here don't get to write code. It just wont happen. haha

> In the 80's i thought we should have an entire character set just for code.

APL got pretty close.

Instructions unclear, my puppy emoji is now chasing its own tail
last line unclear ⬛ an example would be great!
I read that as the puppy emoji escapes itself as two characters print a single character, similar to \ in python strings using \\ to print \
Think backlashes in shell. \$ is just $, \\$ is literal ‘\$’