for each specific programming language to prevent ambiguity, such as the tactic of reading expressions from the leftmost character to the rightmost character, giving a left " symbol a higher precedence (i.e., priority) over any other quotation mark that comes after it (on the same line).

As mentioned earlier, nested quotes can be valid, such as in , but they require some method that employs a hierarchy (typically a stack data structure), regardless of whether that hierarchy