Re: Quotation marks considered harmful
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 05 May 2006 00:53:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Quotation marks considered harmful | ||
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On Thu, May 4, 2006 1:53 pm, John Hicks wrote:
> Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close
> string delimiters?
Because then you need to escape the closing character anyway, to have
it as data, so what did you just gain, really?
Not to mention that all the "good" matching possible delimiters are
already taken for Arrays, code blocks, tag start/end, and order of
operations.
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