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Re: address@hidden: Re: quotation characters]


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: address@hidden: Re: quotation characters]
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:24:58 +0200
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Karl Berry cited RMS saying:
> I thought we were going to tell people to use `quote',
> not just mention it as a possibility.

If it's so hard to convince RMS that modern style is different,
maybe it's easier to convince him to drop this subject.

Things that make sense to state in a standards document are things that
- facilitate the interoperability between programs,
- facilitate the user's perception of the programs (such as --help and
  the configure),
- facilitate the developer's work on various packages (such as the
  coding conventions).
It is thus useful to recommend ASCII for source code of programs (because
of the third point), but I cannot see how prescribing `quote' vs. 'quote'
can be useful.

Bruno





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