Why does it make sense to have "" "" inside strings?

So if you paste this as a comment somewhere you don��t have to manually add double double-quotes.

Did you read my example?

I do not need any double double quotes.

I don��t use the result of print it at all, but I guess there are two scenarios for it��s usage. One as you described: copy the result and use it in tests or in some further computation.

But this is exactly what I cannot do with this stupid doubling of double quotes

(but if you use TDD test are already written ;P).

Another one is to copy the result and paste it somewhere as a comment in your code, to access it easily afterwards. If you have a double quote in your result it will break the comment, so the thing is escaped automatically.

Probably but here this is inside a string.

I think that this heuristic is totally bogus.

On 23 Feb 2017, at 22:25, stepharong <stepharong@free.fr> wrote:

Thnkas gabriel
I'm hacking in an old Pharo 50 image and it was terrible because printit even a copyReplaceAll: '""' byt: '"'
did not work.
I do not understand what is the scenario to double quote comment character "

I understand single quotes but not double quotes.
stef

Try doing Ctrl+P twice. It will not comment the printed string.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:17 PM, stepharong <stepharong@free.fr> wrote:
about quoting ;(

Hi

I have a string

'<li>
Stéphane Ducasse and Damien Pollet, Fingerprints, Journal of Information System, 2010.
</li>
'

and when I do printIt in the debugger I get the following

"'<li>
Stéphane Ducasse and Damien Pollet, Fingerprints, Journal of Information System, 2010.
</li>
'"

I do not get why we doublequote the character "
inside string.

It means that I have to remove all the " inside to string to be able to express tests.

Stef

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