Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 100% agreement.  My preference for using a well-defined convention based
>> on some existing markup language is that the text is then plain ASCII
>> (and hence easy to type and to display) but we can additionally prettify
>> it in a reliable way if the user cares about it.
>
> [Hi! old time newbie here trying to follow this long discussion.]
> I think that the point (3) of Gregory is important too.
> It seems to me that you are refering to the `` Markdown convention.

Not specifically, no.

> I think that what Gregory was saying (correct me otherwise) is that it
> is useful to have distinct characters to represent opening and
> closing quote.

The usefulness is that it resolves some ambiguities.  But those can
resolved in other ways (e.g. by disallowing newlines between the opening
and closing quote).  In any case, resolving ambiguity is why I'm
referring to a "well-defined convention".


        Stefan