On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 13:40, Edmund Lian wrote:
>
> Ian Bicking wrote:
>
> >I'd like to fix all the '''-quoted doc strings in Webware (replacing
> >them with """).
>
> I must have missed the discussion about this... what's wrong with ''' doc
> strings? I've been using these because it's easier to type than """...
Emacs doesn't quite grock triple-quoted strings. It parses
'''something''' as ('')('something')('') -- this works fine most of the
time, but it means that: '''what's wrong here?''' gets parsed as
('')('what') and then it gets confused and breaks totally (it sees a
line (s wrong here?)('')('...hanging)).
This doesn't happen often with """, since if there's " embedded in the
string, they are usually balanced.
Ian
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