RE: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework

[Andrews, Martin]

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).

Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Stribblehill [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Cfengine-develop] Re: Homework
> 
> The way people expect functions to work is that if strings are
> implicitly interpolated, this will happen before the function is
> given the string.
> 
> Python has a wart called r'' which lets you ensure that slashes
> aren't interpreted as escape codes. We _could_ go that way to say for
> example, l'do not substitute $(this)' but as you may have guessed
> from my pejorative language, I don't like that.
> 
> Or we could go the Perl way and use '' for non-interpolated strings
> and "" for interpolated ones, with the obvious drawbacks in that
> scheme.
> 
> There's no perfect answer to this question.
> 
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