[GEM-dev] entry and program strings

[james tittle]

hey all,

...finally getting over the flu, or whatever it was:  not a good way  
to start the year!  I decided to give ben's [entry] another go since  
the fixes/corrections in december, and sure enough it's working  
correctly now...

...so now I'm trying to figure out how use this as an input to the  
various program objects (glsl, arb):  I can see that it's outputting  
a symbol list, but it also produces the weird "escaping" for "," and  
";", so I'm a bit unsure as to how to parse the input into a usable  
program string?  Is the idea to just look for "\\\", removing that  
and just using the following symbol?

...also wondering if we're going to need to include other escaping,  
like for returns or other punctuations that are generally found in  
shader programs:  I'm pretty sure that opengl can handle strings  
without returns, but don't have the spec/manual in front of me...

jamie