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  • Those are all quoting characters. Additional delimiters in that string are whitespace, comma, equals sign, => and a period for a total of eleven delimiters.

    But quoting in particular is more interesting than delimiting in general. Hofstadter wrote a great book about it. Maybe you've heard of it. :)

    Using different quoting syntax for different contexts makes perfect sense to me. Here's what your example would have looked like in a fake-lisp syntax I'm making up right now:

    (a (href (uri_for "add_size" (product_id (product id)))) "Add new size")

    I tried indenting but it didn't help:

    (a
      (href
        (uri_for
         "add_size"
         (product_id (product id))
        ))
      "Add new size")
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