On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Lie Ryan wrote:
> right and you can generalize this idea even further
Don't stop generalizing. Everything should be custom.
http://rosuav.com/1/?id=683
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On 12/29/2011 12:44 PM, Dan Sommers wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:54:16 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:36:17 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
The point is people, we should be using string delimiters that are
ANYTHING besides " and '. Stop being a sheep and use your brain!
"
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:54:16 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:36:17 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
>> The point is people, we should be using string delimiters that are
>> ANYTHING besides " and '. Stop being a sheep and use your brain!
>
> "ANYTHING", hey?
>
> I propose we
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Thank you Rick for yet another brilliant, well-thought-out idea. I look
> forward to seeing your fork of Python with this change. How is it going?
> I hope you aren't going to disappoint the legions of your fans who are
> relying on you to
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:36:17 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> The point is people, we should be using string delimiters that are
> ANYTHING besides " and '. Stop being a sheep and use your brain!
"ANYTHING", hey?
I propose we use ئ and ร as the opening and closing string delimiters.
Problem solved!
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nathan Rice
> wrote:
>> Quotes are obnoxious in the nesting sense because everyone uses quotes
>> for string delimiters. By the same token, quotes are wonderful
>> because not only are they intuitive to pro
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nathan Rice
wrote:
> Quotes are obnoxious in the nesting sense because everyone uses quotes
> for string delimiters. By the same token, quotes are wonderful
> because not only are they intuitive to programmers, but they are
> intuitive in general. Parenthesis are
Quotes are obnoxious in the nesting sense because everyone uses quotes
for string delimiters. By the same token, quotes are wonderful
because not only are they intuitive to programmers, but they are
intuitive in general. Parenthesis are pretty much in the same boat...
I *HATE* them nested, but th
Lie,
> And of course, I can't believe you forget Guido's favourite version, g"",
> available in musical and sirloin cloth flavor.
LMAO! That was brilliant! :)
Cheers!
Malcolm
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On 12/28/2011 04:34 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
On Dec 27, 9:49 pm, Rick Johnson wrote:
The fact is...even with the multi-line issue solved, we still have two
forms of literal delimiters that encompass two characters resulting in
*four* possible legal combinations of the exact same string! I don't
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Rick Johnson
wrote:
> My point was... while Greg's idea is nice, it is not the answer.
> HOWEVER, he did find the perfect char, and that char is the pipe! -->
> |
>
> mlstr = |||
> this is a
> multi line sting that is
> delimited by "triple pipes". Or we
> could j
On 12/29/2011 06:36 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
mlstr = |||
this is a
multi line sting that is
delimited by "triple pipes". Or we
could just 'single pipes' if we like, however, i think
the "triple pipe' is easier to see. Since the pipe char
is so rare in Python source, it becomes the obvious
choice.
On 12/28/2011 11:36 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
On Dec 28, 12:58 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:34:19 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
I am also thinking that ANY quote char is a bad choice for string
literal delimiters. Why? Well because it is often necessary to embed
single or dou
On Dec 28, 12:58 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:34:19 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > I am also thinking that ANY quote char is a bad choice for string
> > literal delimiters. Why? Well because it is often necessary to embed
> > single or double quotes into a string literal. W
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Rick Johnson
wrote:
> I am also thinking that ANY quote char is a bad choice for string
> literal delimiters. Why? Well because it is often necessary to embed
> single or double quotes into a string literal.
Postgres allows dollar-delimited strings, which get arou
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:34:19 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Now. If anyone can look at that mess and not admit it is a disaster,
> well then...
It isn't a disaster. A disaster is when people die, lose their houses,
get tossed out into the street to starve, radioactive contamination
everywhere, fl
On Dec 27, 9:49 pm, Rick Johnson wrote:
> The fact is...even with the multi-line issue solved, we still have two
> forms of literal delimiters that encompass two characters resulting in
> *four* possible legal combinations of the exact same string! I don't
> know about you guys, but i am not a bi
On Dec 27, 10:17 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Rick Johnson
>
> wrote:
> > My proposal is to introduce a single delimiter for string literals. A
> > new string literal that is just as good at spanning single lines as it
> > is spanning multiple lines. A new literal
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:49:12 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> I believe that with the ubiquitous-ness of syntax highlight, string
> literals only need one delimiter. In the old days (before syntax
> highlight was invented) i could understand how a programmer "might" miss
> a single (or even a triple!
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Rick Johnson
wrote:
> My proposal is to introduce a single delimiter for string literals. A
> new string literal that is just as good at spanning single lines as it
> is spanning multiple lines. A new literal that uses widely known
> markup tag syntax instead of cr
Hello folks,
In a recent thread i stumbled upon an epiphany of sorts concerning
Python string literals, with implications that trickle down to all
forms of string literals used in general programming, since, for the
most part, the syntax is virtually the same!
For all our lives we have been excep
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