From: Mark N. <Mar...@fr...> - 2005-04-18 20:26:56
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When the line block implementation was done to allow "|" as an introductory character for a line block, should the documentation for quoted literal block have removed the "|" from it's list? Or is a line block considered to be a kind of literal block? --Mark |
From: David G. <go...@py...> - 2005-04-18 21:54:01
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[Mark Nodine] > When the line block implementation was done to allow "|" as > an introductory character for a line block, should the > documentation for quoted literal block have removed the > "|" from it's list? No; there's no good reason to remove it and backwards compatibility requires it. > Or is a line block considered to be a kind of literal block? No. A literal block is indicated by "::", plus either indentation or a per-line quote character prefix. The character used for quoting may be any non-alphanumeric printable ASCII; the actual character used is not significant. In other words, this:: | is a literal block but this | is a line block -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> |