OT: Re: REALLY nitpicky minor bug in OpenDKIM logging

From: Alessandro Vesely <vesely_at_tana.it>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:14:46 +0100

On 26/Jan/11 19:51, Chris wrote:
> I believe it's called a backtick. I'd actually be interested in
> learning exactly why it is such a common practice to start with a
> backtick and end with a regular single quote, if anyone happens to
> know. I do not understand this convention.

It is what they use in m4. I don't know whether it was invented
there; in regular text, paired quoting is done with “ (66) and ” (99)
more often than ‘ and ’, IME. The obvious advantage of paired quoting
is the possibility of nesting quotations to any level, much like when
using parentheses. In facts, autoconf replaces m4 ticks with brackets
for clarity.
Received on Fri Jan 28 2011 - 10:14:56 PST