apostrophe or double quote?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

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.

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