Wording of type error
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
Fri Apr 27 00:07:48 EDT 2001
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:21:27 -0600 (MDT), Alastair Reid <reid at cs.utah.edu> pisze:
> 2) The use of ` and ' around the identifier doesn't work too well if
> the identifier ends in a '. It'd be better to use " since " isn't
> legal in identifiers. (Of course, you might run into trouble if
> printing a string literal.)
Especially as ` is not really a quote but a grave accent. I'm afraid
I don't have references at hand, but there is an opinion that `this'
way of quoting is a mistake: in ASCII you should use 'this' or "this",
in Unicode you have true quotes available.
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