Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework

[Mark Burgess]

On  6 Mar, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> Quoting Andrews, Martin <address@hidden> (2003-03-06
> 02:22:16 GMT):
>> Fair enough - I agree that having a function around a quoted string
>> to stop interpolation is not intuitive. A different delimiter seems
>> best. While single quotes would be natural here they currently allow
>> interpolation. Unless we are planning major syntax breakage anyway I
>> would not change the behavior of single quotes. Using a different
>> delimiter seems best - maybe """no interpolation""" (another
>> pythonisms - though python uses it differently).
> 
> I think that we're working towards severe enough changes that
> interpolation of '' strings isn't going to be a major issue. Stop me
> right there if this isn't the case, Mark ;)
> 
> However, are we all agreed that strings should always be quoted
> somehow? That's a bigger difference, to my mind, since it affects
> things like signal=kill.
> 



Some better string handling, with escapes and concatenation would
seem to be in order...


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