[m-dev.] `quotes' v.s. 'quotes'

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Feb-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >From Fergus Henderson on 17/02/2001 15:18:16
> > Apparently using `...' for single quotes (`like this') is now officially
> > deprecated <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html> :-(
> > 
> > So at some point in the future we may need to change this in
> > the output of the Mercury compiler.  I'm in no hurry, though.
> 
> Do you want new stuff to use 'this' rather than `that' form or keep to
> the current convention for now?

I think it's probably better to be consistent.

There's so much existing code that uses `that' that I think it will be
easiest if we stick with that convention for now, and change it all at
some point in the future.

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