From e4f9e1f78824966ff130561ff414a6386d456dbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denton Liu Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:31:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Mention single-quotes --- docs/types.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/types.rst b/docs/types.rst index 0f5757a53..486e8b823 100644 --- a/docs/types.rst +++ b/docs/types.rst @@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ a non-rational number). String Literals --------------- -String Literals are written with double quotes (``"abc"``). As with integer literals, their type can vary, but they are implicitly convertible to ``bytes1``, ..., ``bytes32`` if they fit, to ``bytes`` and to ``string``. +String literals are written with either double or single-quotes (``"foo"`` or ``'bar'``). As with integer literals, their type can vary, but they are implicitly convertible to ``bytes1``, ..., ``bytes32``, if they fit, to ``bytes`` and to ``string``. -String Literals support escape characters, such as ``\n``, ``\xNN`` and ``\uNNNN``. ``\xNN`` takes a hex value and inserts the appropriate byte, while ``\uNNNN`` takes a Unicode codepoint and inserts an UTF-8 sequence. +String literals support escape characters, such as ``\n``, ``\xNN`` and ``\uNNNN``. ``\xNN`` takes a hex value and inserts the appropriate byte, while ``\uNNNN`` takes a Unicode codepoint and inserts an UTF-8 sequence. .. index:: enum