Oops, sorry, I was selectively blind. Joosep
On 07 Feb 2014, at 19:09, Eric Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Ismael mentioned that in his original post. He is looking for a way to do > that but with a literal syntax (no intermediate string+functioncall). > > On Friday, 7 February 2014 12:06:56 UTC-6, Joosep Pata wrote: > julia> symbol("test test") > :test test > > On 07 Feb 2014, at 18:25, Ismael VC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > julia> a = :test > > :test > > > > julia> typeof(a) > > Symbol > > > > julia> b = :test test > > ERROR: syntax: extra token "test" after end of expression > > > > julia> b = :"test test" # Ruby style? > > "test test" > > > > julia> typeof(b) # Not a Symbol? > > ASCIIString (constructor with 1 method) > > > > julia> b = symbol(b) # How to write it without calling symbol() function. > > :test test > > > > julia> typeof(b) > > Symbol > > > > > > I just red that in Ruby you use: > > > > :"test test" > > > > in Smalltalk: > > > > #'test test' > > > > and in Lisp: > > > > |test test| > > >
