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Re: Why are ` and ' shown in help for doc strings?
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Why are ` and ' shown in help for doc strings? |
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Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:36:00 +0900 |
Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
> If you write something like `some-var' it will show up just like that in
> the doc string, but with some-var underlined. The underlining makes
> some-var stick out pretty well. Why are ` and ' still shown then?
Because that's how we write such things. The link fontification is an
_addition_ with a different, orthogonal, meaning.
-Miles
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