* Steven D'Aprano wrote: > For a 21st century programming language or data format to accept only one > type of quotation mark as string delimiter is rather like having a 21st > century automobile with a hand crank to start the engine instead of an > ignition. Even if there's a good reason for it (which I doubt), it's > still surprising.
Here's a reason: KISS. Actually I've never understood the reason for multiple equivalent quote characters. There are languages where these are not equivalent, like perl, C or shell script. There it makes way more sense. (If a parser doesn't accept foreign syntax, that's reasonable enough for me, too.) nd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
