Docstrings considered too complicated

[mk]

Ed Keith wrote:
> --- On Wed, 3/3/10, D'Arcy J.M. Cain  wrote:
> 
>> They needed a way to tell where the end of the information
>> was.  Why
>> they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX - End of
>> TeXt) or
>> even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is anyone's guess.
> 
> That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well established, why no use one of them? I'd love to know what they were thinking.

Probably nothing: what many people do with confronted with a problem.

It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation 
instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true, 
it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -, and 
to hell with established practice.

Regards,
mk