Easier syntax for quoting text and html?

[Jim Ault]

You may not realize that the Rev Script Editor uses html tags to  
colorize the script lines..  but it would be an interesting a  
challenge for the design team to use html tags to display html tags.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas



On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> David Bovill wrote:
>> 2009/12/31 Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com>
>>  --// html honors both quote types, ignores extra spaces
>>
> Thanks Jim !! How did I get to this age in my life without realizing  
> that !?
>> NB - I do think that RunRev should add syntax to the language to  
>> make html
>> quoting very easy to use for both iRev scripts We need an elegant  
>> solution
>> to quoting html - other languages are easier to use and read with  
>> regard to
>> html quoting! using our own custom functions does not make read/ 
>> writeability
>> that much easier, and makes it harder to share scripts.
>>
> My first choice would be to allow either single or double quotes to  
> delimit strings - then I could put the other kind within it without  
> any problems (yep, idea borrowed from Python, amongst others).
>
> So we could go one step further and also borrow from Python a neat  
> method of allowing multi-line strings. Instead of using *one* quote  
> at start+end of the string, you use *three* of them (which is  
> unambiguous with any existing valid code, afaict).  So in revTalk  
> terms, I could do
>
> put 'I said "This way!"' into tVar
>
> put "it's mine" into tVar
>
> put """
> this is a long
> multi line string.
> I'd say "It's easy to embed quotes within it !!"
> """ into tVar
>
> Note the starting triple-quote has to be last item on line, and the  
> closing triple-quote has to be first item on its line - and the  
> first/last CR within the text are not part of the resulting string.
>> My suggestion is to extend the syntax for local variables and  
>> constants.
>> Currently we have:
>>
>>
> Hmmm :-(    I'd much rather find a syntax that works equally for  
> local, constants and plain old expressions - see above.
>
> -- Alex.