On 30 September 2012 09:26, Chris Angelico <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com" target="_blank">rosuav@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tim Delaney<br>
<<a href="mailto:timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com">timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Personally I voted for the Fierce Snake[1][2] as the delimiter, but it was<br>
> voted down as "not Pythonic" enough.<br>
> I'm sure they were using that as a euphamism for "Python*ish*" though.<br>
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> [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan</a><br>
> [2] It's is so pretty:<br>
> <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fierce_Snake-Oxyuranus_microlepidotus.jpg" target="_blank">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fierce_Snake-Oxyuranus_microlepidotus.jpg</a><br>
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</div>A tempting idea, but it's rather a large delimiter. We should reserve<br>
that for multi-line strings, I think. Although you may have a problem<br>
with i18n; when you take your code to the southern hemisphere, the<br>
snake will be facing the other way, so what you thought was an<br>
open-quote marker is now a close-quote marker instead. Could get<br>
awkward for naive coders<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You seem to have that backwards. With the Oz-centric focus, it's taking code to the northern hemisphere that's the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim Delaney </div>
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