On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> Chris Barker writes: > > > I think the "better error message" option is the way to go, > > however. At least until we all have better Unicode support in all > > our tools.... > > I don't think "better Unicode support" helps with confusables in > programming languages that value TOOWTDI. that was kind of a throwaway comment, but I think it's a LONG way out, but ideally, the OWTDI would be "curly quotes". The fact that in ASCII, a single quote and a apostrophe are teh same, and that there is no distinction between opening and closing quotes is unfortunate. But it will be a LONG time before we'll all have text editors that can easily let us type that many different characters... and even more time before backward compatibility concerns are alleviated -- probably around the time I can have a snowball fight in the Bad Place. So let's jsut stick with what we have, eh? [1] Personally, I immediately liked the triple quotes, Me too -- I find myself using them in text email messages and the like -- not sure if non-pythonistas get it, but no one has complained yet. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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