Re: [Factor-talk] Communication from the KLF

[Alex C. <cha...@gm...>]

2008/6/30 Chris Double <chr...@do...>:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Alex Chapman <cha...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > This is something that bugs me too. Four keystrokes is an especially high
> > cost for very short strings. What if we had an alternative syntax for
> > strings that don't contain spaces? Something like 'foo would be
> synonymous
> > with "foo", but would save three keystrokes.
>
> But then ' couldn't be used in word names. Lots of parser combinator
> and peg words use idioms like 'foo'. So is that a word called 'foo' or
> the string foo' ?
>
> Chris.


Ah. Good point :)