menu paradigm of Rev/MC and other goofiness -- like quotes

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Feb 27 08:48:00 EST 2003


Ivers, Doug E wrote:

>> Here's a lil' gem that's radically simplified a lot of my code:
>> 
>> function q s
>> return quote& s &quote
>> end q
>> 
>> To call it:
>> 
>> put "I said, "& q("Let's go!")
> That helps, but look how much easier this is to read and debug:
> 
> put "I said, 'Let's go!'"

But that would produce non-standard English for a first-level quotation:

  I said, 'Let's go!'

But string display aside, it would be nice to be able to use a single quote
for literals.

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