Easier syntax for quoting text and html?

[David Bovill]

Yes! Much better syntax - thanks Alex, Jim and Python! Alex why not vote
for:

http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8517

or create a new one?

2010/1/2 Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net>

> 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.
>
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