Steven Schveighoffer: > For completely unambiguous, yes. But still, I find often that quotes are > more noise than they are worth when just doing simple printouts. What we > want is the most useful default.
Quotes add a bit of noise, but I prefer to tell apart the cases of two strings from the case of one string with a comma in the middle. > This would mean that strings have a special case of printing with quotes > only when printed inside an array. This seems like an oddity to me. It's how Python works, that's why there are __repr__ and __str__ for objects, the repr of a string includes the quotes, its __str__ doesn't. >>> a = ["hello world", ["that's right!", "you"]] >>> a ['hello world', ["that's right!", 'you']] >>> print a ['hello world', ["that's right!", 'you']] >>> a[0] 'hello world' >>> print a[0] hello world Notes: - that 'a' contains a string and an array of strings, you usually can't do this in D, so this is not a fully representative example; - Python is dynamically typed, so it's more important that what you print shows its type. In D you can often tell it looking at type of the variable you print (unless it's hidden by a labyrinth of 'auto'). Bye, bearophile
