Is this a bug?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Costas Menico" <costas at meezon.com> wrote in message
news:3afda52c.5731036 at News.CIS.DFN.DE...
> Actually my dream r-architecture is quite simple. Take anything that
> starts and ends with two quotes to be the literal sring.
>
> x=''abcdef'''  -> abcdef'
> x=''abc'xyz''  -> abc'xyz
> x=''abc\'xyz'' -> abc\'xyz
>
> We already have one quote and three quotes. May as well use two
> quotes. Actually the r should also allow selection of the delimiters.

This interferes with the very common empty string ('').  Six quotes are
unused, however.


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