2008/6/30 Chris Double <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Alex Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > This is something that bugs me too. Four keystrokes is an especially high
> > cost for very short strings. What if we had an alternative syntax for
> > strings that don't contain spaces? Something like 'foo would be
> synonymous
> > with "foo", but would save three keystrokes.
>
> But then ' couldn't be used in word names. Lots of parser combinator
> and peg words use idioms like 'foo'. So is that a word called 'foo' or
> the string foo' ?
>
> Chris.
Ah. Good point :)
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