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Re: In docstrings: `sym' and ‘sym’ are equivalent to mismatched `sym’ an
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Garreau\, Alexandre |
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Re: In docstrings: `sym' and ‘sym’ are equivalent to mismatched `sym’ and ‘sym' (and ‘'sym’, nor `undefined' cannot be used) |
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Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:34:01 +0200 |
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On 2018-10-18 at 08:01, Paul Eggert wrote:
> As Clément wrote, you could use `\\='more' if you want the curled
> version to look like ‘'more’. However, the curled version shouldn't
> look like that. It should look like ‘more’ without the apostrophe. Doc
> strings should talk about the values in question, not about code that
> would yield those values.
Yes, as I said, just found out that in the manual: the correct behavior
is prefixing that curly-quoted symbol with the word symbol it seems.