On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 6:10 AM Jim Baker <jim.ba...@python.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 12:56 PM Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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>> On 5 Jul 2021, at 08:07, Thomas Güttler <i...@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
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>> This means backticks, but without the dollar sign.
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>> In bash the backtick was so often a problem that $(cmd) was added.
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>> Having removes the grit-on-Tim's-screen backtick in python 3 I would
>> not like to see it return with its issue of being confused with single-quote.
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>
> One mitigation is that the backtick should always require a tag as a prefix.
> So seeing something like
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> elem = html`<p>Some item: {value}</p>`
>
> is hopefully fairly obvious what's going on - it's not just going to be mixed
> up with a single quote. Uses like log(f`foo`) should be hopefully
> discouraged, in the same way that we don't use l (that's the lower-case
> letter L if you're not reading this email with the numeric codepoints) as a
> variable, but we are happy enough to write something like limit = 42 - it's
> clear in the context.
>
Question: what's the advantage of this magic syntax over something much simpler:
elem = html(i'<p>Some item: {value}</p>')
That avoids the backtick problem because it actually IS an apostrophe.
Or a double quote. Or triple quotes, whatever you want to use. It's
the exact format already used for other special string literal types,
including f-strings.
ChrisA
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