Re: Difference between " and '


16 Nov 1995 01:39:52 GMT

Gareth Rees (gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: That the name property uses double quotes is a historical accident. In
: Inform 1, the `name' property used double quotes, and you wrote #w$word
: or #n$word instead of 'word' (according to whether 'word' was already in
: the dictionary or not).

: So it's wrong, but it's too late to change.

I seem to remember writing objects that used 'word' for the name
property that worked. Was I dreaming?

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