There's a visual distinction...comments (double-quoted strings) show up in green, whereas string literals (single-quoted strings), show up in light purple. That's with the default Pharo style, anyway.
Pat On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:42 PM, P. wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm sending this email to both Squeak-dev and Pharo-project as you can see. > This is to suggest a fix. > > I typed this on a workspace: > > closure := [:x | Transcript show: x]. > closure value: "hey". > > And when I "did it", the VM had me looking at this: > > closure := [:x | Transcript show: x]. > closure value: "hey". Argument expected -> > > Which is cryptic at best for a newbie. > I visited #[email protected] and asked there. > Ken Causey helped me out and even he missed the difference between "" and '' > for a second. > I believe it would be beneficial to newbies to have this enhanced somehow, to > point > out the fact that strings aren't double-quoted. > > Thanks, > > Peter
