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by alok-g 9 days ago
>> Windows really needs to ditch CRLF and just use LF, and switch from backslashes to forward slashes.

{To the extent such stuff is pragmatic:} I think we should switch to Pascal-style strings everywhere, and then have no need for having special-purpose characters like path separators (a path now being a list of strings).

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Windows has been doing for quite a while, that is how COM strings work.