I was looking at the output of ls yesterday, showing me lots of files with spaces in their names.
It feels like a terrible waste of my screen real estate to be putting ' at both ends of every string.
My terminal is in a GUI desktop, it could use some other mechanism for indicating the parts of display that are the data if it knew; change the background colour, underline or box it, something like that.
We're missing out on better interfaces because of the legacy of teletypes and "character display" terminals ... actually perhaps the problem is printf() itself, which could be signalling its format as metadata somehow as well as the formatted string ...
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