[Developers] quoting in par-file strings

[Jonathan Thornburg]

Hi, Tom,

> What is 
> the advantage of having two different delimiters ?

It allows the following cases to avoid needing any explicit quoting:
   Thorn::blah = "this isn't so bad"
   Thorn::quux = 'I like "double quotes", do you?'

ciao,

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