On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:03:12 -0400, Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, "A.J.Mechelynck" apparently wrote: > > What is "the raw string notation from Python" ? > > IMHO it would only create one additional type of string. We already have > > single-quoted 'raw' strings in Vim, yet many people constantly forget > > that double-quoted strings in Vim are "cooked". > > Yes, that is my point: > Many people forget the difference between single and double > quoted strings. Indeed when reading vimscript the difference > is not immediately obvious (easily forgettable), which is > unfortunate. > > Taking the Python approach that values explicitness, > http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html > a raw string can be created > r'like this' or r"like this". But "..." versus '...' is just as explicit. It's also something shared by every Unix shell I've used, along with quite a few other languages such as Perl. In fact, apart from Python and XML I can't think of any languages that don't make a distinction between double and single quotes, as it's an extremely useful difference and it's a waste of a limited character set to ignore it. -- Matthew Winn
