Re: Quotes around \consists argument?

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le 24/04/2022 à 16:09, David Kastrup a écrit :
>> I think we had this discussion at one time, possibly resulting in making
>> this have a unique style at least in documentation. 
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> The previous discussion I could find is
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> https://codereview.appspot.com/6461098/
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> Which does not exactly suggest that a consistent rationale
> was known at the time: you made the patch to "follow the CG",
> Graham started by asking why the convention was like that,
> and it appeared that he had put it himself in the CG ...

I didn't say that the reasons for arriving at that decision were super
compelling.  Just that we ended up with it.

At some point of time there was a mixture.  I know that translator names
were a main motivation to have "word syntax" treat "-" and "_"
similarly, to have code continue working even if it did not follow the
"quote it" quasi-convention.

-- 
David Kastrup