[m-dev.] Suggestion: change quotation rule

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Mar-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Personally, I use `backquoting` where it makes code easier to read,
> which, IMHO, only works for operators with short names.  Which rules
> out module qualified names -

I find that combining infix notation and module qualifiers is
often useful.  For example if I see

	(X `union` Y) `union` Z

it's not clear which of the several `union' predicates in
the standard library this is referring to, whereas

	(X `map__union` Y) `map__union` Z

is quite clear.

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