choice between quotes thoughts

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

Am Sonntag 12 August 2001 17:12 schrieb François Pinard:
> [Markus Schaber]
>
> > I just use "..." for strings and '...' chars (Strings containing
> > one char - this comes from Java where Chars can be given this way),
>
> It might not be a good thing transporting all style habits from one
> language to another.  In C or Java, it is true you did not have the
> choice. In Python, you could put the acquired freedom to good use,
> instead of forever and patiently pulling your prisoner's bullet with
> you :-).

Well - sometimes I just want to express that I want a single char, as 
opposite to a string with length 1. So I use the freedom to choose 
between two possibilities to express this, and to not have to learn a 
new style.

> I quite understand that writing styles are acquired with
> non-negligible efforts, and grow their own worth because of this. 
> So, it is only normal trying to recycle the most we can from them
> when wandering between languages. On the other hand, some distance
> between styles for various languages does help avoiding
> cross-confusion, it eases your own "context switching" as a
> programmer, by having it more marked and less fuzzy.

My context-switching is fully triggered by the great absence of type- 
and variable declarations just as {}s for code blocks. :-)

markus

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