apostrophe or double quote?

[Terry Hancock]

On 09 Feb 2006 12:54:04 +0000 (GMT)
Sion Arrowsmith <siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Terry Hancock  <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> >skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >> Just to present a complete picture, not mentioned in
> >this > thread are triple-quoted strings:
> >> [ ... ]
> >Also in the mode of beating a dead horse ... ;-)
> >
> >Some people prefer to use single quotes for 'labels'
> >(i.e. a name which is meaningful to the program, but not
> >to the user), and reserve either double-quotes or
> >triple-double-quotes for text to be shown to the user.
> > [ ... ]
> 
> Hmm, I made both these points a couple of posts upthread,
> but it didn't appear to get through the news->mail
> gateway.

Ah well, it all came up on the list about a month or two ago
anyway (I guess. I don't know, maybe it was a year ago), so
I'm just repeating it.

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com