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Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:22 -0400

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  > Since August 25 I by and large stopped inserting curved quotes there, 
though I 
  > did make an exception more recently for “Bahá’í”.

That might be one of the special places where it is proper to have
a curly quote in the Emacs sources: as part of a name.

But I expect that most of the occurrences are mistakes.

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