escaping vs. quoting

[Miller Puckette]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

> But making quoting a universal standard, while retaining existing
> escaping scheme for dollars, semis, and commas, requires care.
> There are many special cases, various pitfalls, and much room for
> users to abuse them.  If having message target or message selector
> in quotes does not really scare me, what about resolving any
> combination of quoted and escaped or not escaped dollars, semis,
> and commas?  Maybe it is easy, but I am lost here...
> 
Indeed, I almost went insane that way once trying to get commas and
semis to work in Max...  then Zicarelli somehow added a quoting feature
ON TOP of that for Cycling74.  I'd like to find something simple this
time...

cheers
Miller