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		gouranga on April 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our em... This is exactly why you should never mix data and code/markup. When the semantic barrier is broken, all shit breaks loose. I've always wondered if SICP style scheme would cause these sort of problems.

ars on April 27, 2012 [–]

It's more an issue of in-band or out-of-band signaling.

It's hard to do in-band signaling properly, but often time you only have a single data channel and then you have no choice.

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