On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 02:33, Kevin Myers wrote: > I may be completely out in left field, so feel free to correct me if my > comments are off the mark... > > I am worried that Sven's proposal may case some problems. I am > uncomfortable with using a syntax that depends on what many languages and > operating environments would consider to be unbalanced single quotes. I am > worried that these could end up causing great difficulties for example, when > starting the gimp with a script-fu script and related parameters from the > command line, on either *nix, or especially under Windows. Does anyone else > agree this could be a serious problem, or can someone essentially guarantee > that it isn't? Unbalanced single quotes are used very often in Scheme. A single single quote is used to indicate literal data. It is an integrated part of the Scheme language. ./Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@xxxxxxxx>
