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
if the value has to be escaped to play nice with the docstring it can get confusing confusing... for me at least. I'd like to put *exactly* what will be returned. Dan On Dec 13, 2008, at 7:58 PM, James Reeves wrote: > > On Dec 13, 9:34 pm, Dan Larkin wrote: >> I&#x

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 ma

python style triple-double-quotes

2008-12-13 Thread Dan Larkin
Fellow clojurecrats, I'm here to ask for python style triple-double-quotes syntax in clojure. For those unfamiliar they're documented here: http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#strings This is also a nice summary: http://diveintopython.org/getting_to_k