On Apr 6, 8:40 pm, André Malo <ndpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > * Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:08:11 +0200, André Malo wrote: > > >> * 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. > > > KISS is a reason *for* allowing multiple string delimiters, not against > > it. The simplicity which matters here are: > > > * the user doesn't need to memorise which delimiter is allowed, and > > which is forbidden, which will be different from probably 50% of > > the other languages he knows; > > > * the user can avoid the plague of escaping quotes inside strings > > whenever he needs to embed the delimiter inside a string literal. > > > This is the 21st century, not 1960, and if the language designer is > > worried about the trivially small extra effort of parsing ' as well as " > > then he's almost certainly putting his efforts in the wrong place. > > Yes, that's what you said already. My reasoning was in the part you stripped > from my quote. *shrug*
Multiple symmetric quote characters breaks one of python's own zen rules: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
