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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:47:38 +0300
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On 08/31/2015 09:39 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

It's better for beginners to have examples where (print "FOO") outputs
FOO rather than some other string.

No, it isn't. That doesn't impact understanding of the snippet at all.

If anything, the sooner they encounter the convoluted results of your choices WRT quotes, the better.

Writing example docstrings with curly quotes for the stated reason doesn't hold water either.



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