directional quotes
monkyyy
crazymonkyyy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 18:30:02 UTC 2024
Ascii deprecated several marks of english grammar to fit into 7
bits, one of these features was the directional quotes and so c
had to make strings with single quotes and rules about escaping.
We are no longer c and its no longer the 60's.
Imagine making a 1 char typo of escape characters when making a
deeply nested strings for mixins.
I'd suggest "heavy double comma" as its visibly distinct in 3
monospace fonts I checked
❝ ❞
U+275D U+275E
I believe all directional quote schemes will require users to add
custom xmodmap to type or ide plugins so I believe monospace font
behavoir so be the primary concern.
A directional quoted string should have the simplest parsing rule
of it counts up on U+275D and down at U+275E and returns when its
0; all other escapes and characters are ignored.
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