Re: [PATCH] unmapped quotes

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Sat May 12 2012 - 07:27:25 EST


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:02:36PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 12.05.2012 12:47, liwp.linux@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > - * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
> > + * If we're over 'background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
>
> I can't say the original is wrong. Since these quotes don't have
> "open" and "close" versions like {} or () pairs does, people often
> use ` as opening and ' as closing - while staying within ascii.
> Alternatives are things like   or other things, but these aren't
> ascii anymore. So I'd say keep it alone... ;)

Agreed. For example, latex uses ` and ' as opening and closing pairs.
That does look a bit weird for C and shell users ;)

Thanks,
Fengguang
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