choice between quotes thoughts

Tom Good Tom_Good1 at excite.com
Fri Aug 10 19:22:59 EDT 2001


Joshua Marshall <jmarshal at mathworks.com> wrote in message news:<9l12mo$m7c$1 at news.mathworks.com>...
> I always use '.  Holding down shift is just far too much effort.

My thoughts exactly.  Single quote doesn't require shifting -- it is
the 'automatic transmission' of string delimiters.

This also explains why Lists are better than Tuples: typing (1,2,3)
requires two shifts, typing [1,2,3] requires none.  ;-)


Tom



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