On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:43, Yossi Kreinin<yossi.krei...@mobileye.com> wrote: > 2. It is widely known that GNU loves `backtick-tick' quoting. This is > presumably better than "this" or 'this' because you can mechanically tell an > opening quote from a closing quote, and the ability to do so greatly pleases > GNU people despite the fact that this happens inside sentences in natural > language like documentation or error messages which either can't be > mechanically parsed anyway or they can based on the assumption that they are > formed from fixed format strings, the exact spelling of which is thus of no > importance for the ability to parse the messages anyway.
I always thought this was because that's how M4 does it: http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#index-quoted-string-32. -- (darren)
