There's a visual distinction...comments (double-quoted strings) show up in green, whereas string literals (single-quoted strings), show up in light purple. That's with the default Pharo style, anyway. Pat On Aug 7, 2011, at 8:42 PM, P. wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm sending this email to both Squeak-dev and Pharo-project as you can see. This is to suggest a fix.

I typed this on a workspace:

closure := [:x | Transcript show: x]. closure value: "hey".

And when I "did it", the VM had me looking at this:

closure := [:x | Transcript show: x]. closure value: "hey". Argument expected ->

Which is cryptic at best for a newbie. I visited #squeak@irc.freenode.net and asked there. Ken Causey helped me out and even he missed the difference between "" and '' for a second. I believe it would be beneficial to newbies to have this enhanced somehow, to point out the fact that strings aren't double-quoted.

Thanks,

Peter