[Python-ideas] Idea for new multi-line triple quote literal

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Maybe "dedent" should be replaced with "outdent", while keeping the
old names for compatibility.

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> nbv4 <nbvfour at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> "dedent" is a weird word, maybe "unindent" would be better?
>
> That ship has sailed, since the name “dedent” is already established
> usage in Python (from ‘textwrap.deden in the standard libraryt’).
>
> A better term, by symmetry with “indent”, would have been “outdent”
> <URL:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/outdent>. But that would be
> needlessly confusing since we already refer to it in Python by the
> neologism “dedent”.
>
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