FWIW I use "foo" in Pyspark or col("foo") where necessary, and $"foo" in
Scala
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:58 AM Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote:
> As part of evolving the Scala language, the Scala team is considering
> removing single-quote syntax for representing symbols. Single-quote syntax
> is one of the ways to represent a column in Spark's DataFrame API. While I
> personally don't use them (I prefer just using strings for column names, or
> using expr function), I see them used quite a lot by other people's code,
> e.g.
>
> df.select('id, 'name).show()
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> I want to bring this to more people's attention, in case they are
> depending on this. The discussion thread is:
> https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/proposal-to-deprecate-and-remove-symbol-literals/2953
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