15 minutes ago, Rodolfo Carvalho wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 00:40, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > If you get the impression that I dislike what python does with
> > quoting, then that would be a correct one...
>
> You made that enough clear.
Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like flaming. I just spent a
good amount of time on various quoting facilities (and ended up with
the scribble syntax which directly deals with this issue).
> Consistent, composable, clear, easy to explain.
Right. The only thing that I'd change here is that a design that is
easy to explain is one that is consistent etc.
10 minutes ago, Rodolfo Carvalho wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 00:50, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote:
> > >>> r"foo\"
> > [...]
> > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
> >
> Yep! Inconsistent and error-prone!
[Something that would worry me more is not having such an
inconsistency at the implementation level -- it's the danger of
programmers ending up making mistakes because of it.]
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