item delimiter defaults

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Thu Nov 21 18:18:31 EST 2013


On 22.11.2013 at 9:21 Uhr +1100 Monte Goulding apparently wrote:
>
>Wouldn't we still need to ensure the columnDelimiter is what we want 
>it to be and set it back to what others expect like Jacque was 
>pointing out it's pretty annoying. Working with the folder drives me 
>nuts for example...
>

No, unless we go with option to change global default. "column" would 
be simply a new text chunking option parallel to items.

The way I understood it, when we have a line of code with tabs and 
commas, we could refer to its items (comma-delimited) or columns 
(tab-delimited) without having to set any delimiter at all.

Of course, we would still have an option to reset any of those 
delimiters as it is now for items, but the default settings would 
eliminate the need to set the item delimiter to tab, which was the 
issue raised by the original poster, affecting many others, myself 
included, while not affecting any existing code or people who rely on 
comma being the default item delimiter.

RObert




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