Alistair> In order to produce one double-quote inside a double-quote Alistair> delimited string, many (most?) languages let you use two Alistair> adjacent double quotes. So a string starting with triple Alistair> double-quote would result in a string that has one double Alistair> quote as its first char.
Alistair> I imagine that smarter language-aware editors would handle Alistair> this case, otherwise they would not correctly recognise Alistair> whether or not the cursor was inside a string literal. Hmm, you're right. I myself know of only one such language, Pascal (and its derivatives, such as Ada), but Pascal should definitely be handled by Emacs. I'll have to take a look at the Pascal mode to see how they do it. Still, I prefer the other syntax :-) (single double quotes with a pseudo operator prefix). -- She had a passion for anyone who could do anything really well. ... "Not for an engineer, not for a technician!" Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime