RE: [Docutils-develop] Project Policies

[Tony J I. (Tibs) <to...@ls...>]

On single quotes for strings...

David Goodger wrote:
> Purely my preference.

s'OK

> I find it cleaner, and ' doesn't require shifting.

Hmm. Since I started touch typing (about eight years into professional
programming - I'm told it looks odd only using the fingers I do to type
with) I'm fairly "blind" to what requires shifting and what doesn't - it
just happens...

Continued usage of C (and latterly Java as well) has constrained me to
use `"` as the string quote character - it's what I'm used to. That's
*not* an argument for me to try and force it onto other people (gods
forbid!), but it's (probably) the selfish reason I don't want to change
old habits in Python (and heck, I've been doing it that way in Python as
well now since 1.0, back when I still occasionally worked on Fortran77
code).

I think it *is* reasonable to ask that people working on an existing
body of code follow the conventions for that code - so if I were to edit
DPS/reST code (using the old term for that part of Docutils) it is
*polite* [1]_ to follow the internal conventions. And for that reason it
*is* worth spelling out the conventions you have used and prefer.

.. [1] Trying to be polite, in a reasonable manner, is
   a Good Thing, I think. (look - I remembered the space
   after the dots!)

> I was using both for a while, but found it looked
> cluttered, so standardized on one.

Interesting. I suspect that the visual impact of two quotes is what I'm
attached to...

Tibs

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