From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: [patch] age depending date-format
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:08:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjlmia6sw5.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ofn6grxg.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:19:17 -0400")
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> This use of `' wouldn't benefit from the previous mistake, so why
> compound it?
It wasn't a mistake in the first place, "`" was overloaded (ASCII only
has so many codepoints).
Since advanced Emacs users will have to know that "`" and "'" match,
it will continue to serve as a good mnemonic.
> Maybe. If so, that'll be a kluge to work around the mistake of
> using ` in the first place. Ultimately, ` ought to be phased out as
> a quote character.
In doc strings? It should be continued to be used exclusively until
using the Unicode replacements become more practical to the
programmers. It shouldn't matter for users what's in the source.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-17 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-16 19:42 Frank Schmitt
2001-10-16 20:52 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-17 7:16 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-10-17 16:09 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-17 16:34 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-10-17 11:50 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-17 13:59 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-17 14:08 ` Didier Verna
2001-10-17 14:11 ` Colin Marquardt
2001-10-17 14:36 ` Didier Verna
2001-10-17 15:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-17 15:33 ` Didier Verna
2001-10-17 15:30 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-17 15:41 ` Didier Verna
2001-10-17 16:14 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-17 16:19 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-17 16:37 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-17 16:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-17 17:03 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-17 18:11 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-17 18:08 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2001-10-17 16:20 ` Amos Gouaux
2001-10-17 16:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-18 6:44 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2001-10-17 15:09 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-17 15:15 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-17 15:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-17 16:04 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-17 20:35 ` Update of gnus-user-date (was: [patch] age depending date-format) Frank Schmitt
2001-10-17 21:34 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-18 7:53 ` Update of gnus-user-date Frank Schmitt
2001-10-18 10:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 17:11 ` Update of gnus-user-date (was: [patch] age depending date-format) Wes Hardaker
2001-10-17 10:51 ` [patch] age depending date-format Frank Schmitt
2001-10-17 15:05 ` Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
2001-10-17 16:09 ` Frank Schmitt
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