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Re: GCC 's quoting typographic conventions
- From: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>,"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap at osdl dot org>,Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>,<gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:11:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC 's quoting typographic conventions
- regardless of the relative merit of the feature, I agree that it's
not worth pursuing debate on a subject which some may have a vested
emotional and/or sweat interest in; and as you note, can be relatively
easily worked around, so arguably moot.
Thanks, -paul-
(please consider the below citation only a contextual reference)
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
> Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net> writes:
>
> | > From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> | >
> | > Another tool can't do anything typographical without the necessary
> | > information. With the matched quotes, however, it could e.g. place the
> | > contents of the quotes in a fixed-width font.
> |
> | - like parse it?? (but then again, somewhat ironically, GCC can't parse
> | its own pretty quotes, nor should it have to)
>
> But again, if you want to have ASCII quotes, you can have it. Just
> use LANG=C. It is not that someone ie taking away that option.
>
> And you "ironic argument" about GCC unable to parse its own pretty
> quotes is pure nonsense: The diagnostics pretty-quotes or not are not
> things GCC parses.
>
> -- Gaby