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Re: [ddlm-group] Focusing the elide discussion. .
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- From: "Bollinger, John C" <John.Bollinger@STJUDE.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:29:16 -0600
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On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:20 AM, James Hester wrote: >By my count there are 6 distinct proposals for eliding triple-quoted >strings on the table, which I have listed below. In order to get an >idea of where we all stand and which proposals are most likely to >succeed, I'd like to invite you all to reply to this email with a list >of proposals which you would find acceptable. If you like, you can >rank them in order of preference. In the list below I've given short >descriptions, but you should refer to the original emails for the full >details. The opinions of COMCIFS voting members are of course most >significant at this juncture, but I for one am interested in the >thoughts of the other members as well. > >Proposal P (for Python): Ralf's original proposal to do everything as in Python >Proposal A: <backslash><delimiter> elides the delimiter, no other >sequences are significant >Proposal B: \uxxxx to represent Unicode characters, no other sequences >are significant >Proposal C: as yet unspecified character post-elides the delimiter >where necessary >Proposal D: as for C, except post-elide character is given immediately >before opening triple delimiter >Proposal E: (John B's suggestion) \uxxxx for Unicode character >together with \<newline> and \\ >Proposal F: (Simon's proposal) \<newline> and \\ only >Proposal F': (My slight tweak of Simon's proposal) \<newline> only >when not preceded by \ Best: E, F, F' Good: A, B Last resort: C, D Unacceptable: P 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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