Re: python strings

Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com)
Fri, 22 Apr 1994 20:08:49 GMT

In article <9404210759.AA08783=guido@voorn.cwi.nl> Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl writes:
: ABC, Python's predecessor, had a convention whereby a backticks in
: string literals did this (sh and Perl also have this in some of their
: quoting schemes).

Er, no. Perl doesn't do that. I'm somewhat allergic to the multiple
interpretation levels of sh.

Larry