Re: python style triple-double-quotes

2008-12-13 Thread Martin DeMello
On Dec 14, 6:06 am, Dan Larkin wrote: > Yes, I'd like the feature because it's a pain in the neck to go   > through and escape strings when I know there's a better way. For escaping strings, I prefer ruby's solution, which is to have reader support for arbitrary delimiters, either matched pairs

Re: python style triple-double-quotes

2008-12-13 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Dan Larkin wrote: > > Yes, I'd like the feature because it's a pain in the neck to go > through and escape strings when I know there's a better way. > > Also sometimes it doesn't feel right to escape strings... for instance > in function doc strings I'd like to gi

Re: python style triple-double-quotes

2008-12-13 Thread Dan Larkin
Yes, I'd like the feature because it's a pain in the neck to go through and escape strings when I know there's a better way. Also sometimes it doesn't feel right to escape strings... for instance in function doc strings I'd like to give an example return value. But if the value has to be e

Re: python style triple-double-quotes

2008-12-13 Thread James Reeves
On Dec 13, 9:34 pm, Dan Larkin wrote: > I'm here to ask for python style triple-double-quotes syntax in clojure. I'm not completely sure they're needed, to be honest. In Python, triple quotes have 2 benefits: multi-line quotes and you don't have to escape quotation marks. In Clojure, normal quot