Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Óscar Fuentes writes:

 > Maybe I skipped the post that described the improvements, but what
 > I've seem so far is "because it is modern",

I think you misread.  The point is that modernizing projects are
already doing it and the sky didn't fall, not that calling a feature
"modern" makes it attractive.

 > "because beginners think our current style is weird",

Indeed, they do.  So do a lot of people who are way beyond beginners.

 > "because other GNU projects use it",

Indeed, they do.

 > "because this will help improve our Unicode support"...

I think it will, as I gather Paul does.

 > Am I missing something?

"It improves readability."  But that's a matter of taste.