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Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:17:16 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Eliminate unused ESCAPE_NULL, ESCAPE_SPACE flags
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:44:30PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
> I can see how some finer-grained flags could be useful, but for now I'm
> trying to simplify, so let's just remove these unused ones.
> 
> Note the trickiest part is actually the tests, and I still need to check
> them.

Currently this _tries_ to follow the shorthand character classes which is
established by tools. For example, "\s" = "[ \t\r\n\f]". Also it (almost?)
matches the counterpart, i.e. string_unescape() classes.

So, if we would need something else, perhaps better to do it in the separate
flags.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko