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Re: [ddlm-group] Simon's elide proposal
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- From: "Bollinger, John C" <John.Bollinger@STJUDE.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:14:33 -0600
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On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:39 AM, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote: >Please state the proposal F handling of the following strings, both syntax and semantics, here presented in their python form I take this as a response to James's invitation, but inasmuch as he is (I hope) sleeping at the moment, I will endeavor to pick up the flag. >"""\"""" >'''\'''' Taking the first of these as representative of this pair: This is a string containing one quote character. The best elision under proposal F would be """"\ """ Easier, however, would be to write it as one of these: '"' '''"''' >r"""\"''' >r'''\'''' Supposing that you mean r"""\"""" in the former case, and taking the second as representative of the pair: This is a string containing a backslash character followed by an apostrophe character. The best proposal F elision would be '''\'\ ''' Simpler representations would be '\"' '''\"''' >"""\ >\"\ >""" The string contains one quote character, just like the first example. The elision is therefore the same. >r"""\ >\"\ >""" This is a string containing six characters: backslash, newline, backslash, quote, backslash, newline. The best elision for this string under proposal F would be: """\\ \\"\\ """ There is an equivalent form using ''', but it is no simpler. Cheers, John -- John C. Bollinger, Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer _______________________________________________ ddlm-group mailing list ddlm-group@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/ddlm-group
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