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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.