Re: RFC 328 (v2) Single quotes don't interpolate \' and \\

[Damien Neil]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >   $foo = """Things like ', ", and \ have no special meaning in here.""";
> 
> Argh! *NO*! That way lies madness, or at least DCL's quoting mania. My 
> record, in a command procedure that wrote other command procedures that 
> submitted command procedures to batch, was 13 quotes in a row. Let's *not* 
> go there, thanks.

Python doesn't allow that degree of quoting.  You can just use triple
quotes as an alternative to single quotes.

Certainly no more insane than qq{}, qq[], qq(), qq##, qqqq, qq!!, ...

                      - Damien