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coldtea on Sept 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: ASCII and Unicode quotation marks

>All this horrible complexity could have been avoided if we could just write

Only if there was no chance of unbalanced quotes to need to be in the string.

mort96 on Sept 14, 2017 [–]

You'd still have escape sequences for those cases.

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