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You can still type single quotes. You have a tool to convert that for you. The visual noise complaint is interesting. Do you also consider the letter W to be
by ambivalence 8y ago
You can still type single quotes. You have a tool to convert that for you.
The visual noise complaint is interesting. Do you also consider the letter W to be more noisy than the letter V? Should we discourage the use of noisy letters in the alphabet?
- mixmastamyk 8y agoYes, why www. was dropped, and quotes are used everywhere in most Python code. The triple doubles for doc strings are the worst example, though I have no illusions pep8 will be changed any time soon.
- davnn 8y ago> The visual noise complaint is interesting. I thought the same. I guess you could just modify your programming font to make the double quotes really tiny :)
- zestyping 8y agoA double-quote is more noisy than a single-quote, and W is more noisy than V. The difference is that " and ' are equally usable options in the context we're talking about. Quotes are very common, so the visual noise adds up when your screen is full of quote marks. Given that they mean the same thing, and one is both harder to type and harder to read, it makes sense to prefer the other.
- mixmastamyk 8y ago> Given that they mean the same thing, and one is both harder to type and harder to read, it makes sense to prefer the other. Nailed it.
- prawl 8y agoA double quote is in no way harder to read. Only on Hacker News.
- abiox 8y agothis seems a bit reductive.