22 Sep
2006
22 Sep
'06
10:39 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:30:50PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
John> Why not just go the Python way and use """ ? That is, three John> literal quotes at the beginning and end. After all, Python has John> lifted quite a few things from Haskell. Time to return the John> favor. ;-)
Because it will confuse language-agnostic tools.
I don't understand -- what language-agnostic tools would this confuse more than any other syntax?
Do you use Emacs? How does it handle the Python syntax? I am not a Python programmer, so I can't answer that myself. But I'll hazard a guess: badly.
python-mode actually handles Python syntax a lot better than haskell-mode handles Haskell syntax, particularly regarding indentation. -- John