OT: The Straight Dope

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.nospam at removeme.free.fr
Wed Oct 8 06:07:08 EDT 2003


Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Bruno Desthuilliers:
> 
>>It might have something to do with the CMU Common Lisp compiler, also
>>named Python ?
> 
> 
> No.  Backticks are another way of doing repr.  Few use it.
> 
> 
>>>>print "Hello"
> 
> Hello
> 
>>>>print `"Hello"`
> 
> 'Hello'
> 

Woops. I forgot this...
as you say : '"Few use it." !-)

Bruno





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