Michael Hoffman wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone tell me the difference between single quote and double
>>> quote?
>>
>> >>> ord("'") - ord('"')
>> 5
>
> Very zen.
But unfortunately incorrect, since the original poster
didn't ask for the difference between the ordinal
values of the single quote and double quote characters,
but for the difference between the characters themselves.
The question was in plain English, and in my opinion,
perfectly understandable, especially since some common
programming languages do have significant differences
between single-quoted strings and double-quoted strings.
It may shock some people to learn that difference in
the sense of mathematical subtraction is not the only
meaning of the word, but there it is. One wouldn't, I
hope, misunderstand "What is the difference between
spaghetti marinara and spaghetti pescatora?" and
attempt to subtract one from the other, since
subtraction is not defined for foodstuffs.
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Steven.
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