choice between quotes thoughts

Markus Schaber markus at schabi.de
Sun Aug 12 11:45:11 EDT 2001


Hi,

Tom Good <Tom_Good1 at excite.com> schrub:

> 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.  ;-)

Happy Americans!

With German keyboard layout, we have to press Shift for (), " and ' as 
we have to use the Alt-Gr-Key to get {}s and []s.

markus
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