Why aren't colons optional?
Marc Poulin
mpoulin at verinet.com
Mon Jan 21 20:19:13 EST 2002
In article <u4oc4g84pfuv4d at news.supernews.com>, "John Roth"
<johnroth at ameritech.net> wrote:
>> I've also always found the interchangability of ' and " to be a bit
>> amusing. Seems like it was just a bone to throw to the "there's more
> than
>> one way to do it" camp.
Thus spake Niklaus Wirth:
$string = '"'{character}'"' | "'"{character}"'".
-- Programming in Modula-2 (3rd ed., 1985), p. 15
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