On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:30 PM Ryan Joseph <generic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I must have missed something, why would a single apostrophe be anything > besides just another character? I thought another use of `` strings would > be that you don’t need to escape apostrophes using ‘'. > I didn't really think it should be. Just wanted to make sure we're aiming for the exact "mirror image" of normal strings. On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:35 PM Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > for reasons of symmetry, if > '`' (quote backtick quote) > is legal, then > `'` (backtick quote backtick) > should also be. I see no point in allowing a normal quote to end a ` > string, > as the opposite also does not happen. A backtick also does not end a > single-quoted string. > > The backticked string is in all respects the same as a regular string, > except that the single quote delimiter is replaced by a backtick delimiter. > > That means that `this is `` a bakcticked string with a backtick in it` > should also work. > Ok, that's how it already works with the revised version. Just thought I would double-check.
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