GCC 's quoting typographic conventions

[Randy.Dunlap]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> Paul Schlie wrote:
> 
>> Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-10/msg01263.html
>>     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg02679.html
>>
>> I suspect the strongest argument in favor GCC simply utilizing plane old
>> ASCII typographical " and ' quote delimiter characters when possible, is
>> that GCC is first and foremost a development tool, generating text which
>> just as likely to be consumed by other tools as read my humans.
>>
>> Therefore GCC should arguably adopt the conventions most friendly to that
>> purpose; where although it may be enabled to make its output 
>> typographically
>> prettier, doing at the risk of potentially complicating it's 
>> subsequent use
>> likely isn't a good decision. As opposed to a text processing tool who's
>> purpose is to generate ideally human friendly text, such as intended for
>> documentation for example.
> 
> 
> To me, this is a very strong argument, given that the argument on the
> other side is really nothing more than a relatively unimportant aesthetic
> concern (and that aesthetic may well be overridden in practice by strange
> results in environments that do not handle the extended character set).

Glad to hear that.  I'll second/third/whatever it.

Begin typographical is for some other tool.

-- 
~Randy