From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2003-11-30T14:06:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Python (IMHO)

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>>(r"..." is Python for '...', btw: strings without special character
>>sequence processing.  The 'r' stands for "raw" strings.)
> 
> yeah, isn't it obvious? ;-).  it really stands out well.  this is just
> one example of things that seem to be hacks in Python,

I don't see r"" as more hackish than Ruby's %Q(), %q(), %r() or Perl's 
``, q(), qq(). It's just an alternative way to express literals.

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dave