Ticket #0002196

Summary	Make escaping of ^(space) as caret underscore ^_
Description	In #0002195 I suggest that one should be able to use escape characters in ANY-WORD! just as you can in strings. Since escaping previously applied to strings, it was not necessary to be able to escape a space. So the character sequence ^- was taken for TAB. In a perfect world, I'd probably rather have ^- represent space and ^\| represent tab. The vertical pipe for tab could represent something like a "tab stop" or column separator. @pekr suggested caret underscore in chat. It has a bit of a visibility problem, as with ^_ the underscore can sit on the baseline and be a little hard to see. But that said, it's very common in programming and a legitimate "programming character". (The visibility problems affecting underscores in URLs in an address bar don't so much affect code.) As changing ^- to space would change not only formatting but also affect file formats delimiting fields with tabs, it's probably too radical to change. So ^_ seems the more reasonable proposal, and may even be better anyway. I'll point out you can use it in strings even (if you want to)...which might make some situations clearer. Consider: print [" where " does " the " string " end "] vs. print ["^_where^_" does "^_the^_" string "^_end^_"]
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Assigned to	n/a	Fixed in	-	Last Update	27-Feb-2015 18:08

Date	User	Field	Action	Change
27-Feb-2015 18:08	Fork	Severity	Modified	major => minor
27-Feb-2015 18:02	Fork	Description	Modified	-
27-Feb-2015 18:01	Fork	Description	Modified	-
27-Feb-2015 17:59	Fork	Summary	Modified	Revise escaping so that space is ^- and tab is ^\| => Make escaping of ^(space) as caret underscore ^_
27-Feb-2015 17:59	Fork	Description	Modified	-
27-Feb-2015 17:30	Fork	Ticket	Added	-