[ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-8

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2017-07-17 18:39, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> On 07/17/2017 03:41 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> 
>> Indeed, bracket completion has to ignore content of strings otherwise 
>> you can't write stuff like:
>> 
>>    put ( ")" & "'" ) & ( "'" ) into tVar
>> 
>> Without funky things happening.
> 
> ...and with good reason. I can't think why I would *ever* write that.
> If I had to do something that daft I'd write it as
> 
> put ")''" into tVar
> 
> but I would hope the occasion would never arise.

Indeed - it is a bit of tortuous example...

However cases of double quotes, single-quotes, un-balanced brackets, 
braces and parentheses all occur in various domains - most notably 
anything which processes or generates source-code.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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