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Re: [patch] More suggestive error_is_running message


On Tuesday, April 10 2012, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:52:10 +0200, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 10 2012, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>> > +	   "and wait for '[Thread N] #1 stopped.'.)"));
>> 
>> Sorry for the nitpick: I guess we use `' (as in `interrupt'), and not ''.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Quote-Characters
> 	Although GNU programs traditionally used 0x60 (â`â) for opening and
> 	0x27 (â'â) for closing quotes, nowadays quotes â`like this'â are
> 	typically rendered asymmetrically, so quoting â"like this"â or â'like
> 	this'â typically looks better. 
>
> I was surprised `this is no longer the standard'.

In such cases I never know if those new standards apply for new
projects, or for existing projects as well.  If they apply to existing
projects, then I'm not sure there should be any massive
replacement/adjustment in the codebase to reflect those new rules.

Anyway, I was surprised by this new rule as well.  Thanks for pointing
it out.

-- 
Sergio


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