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Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?


From: T.V Raman
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:21:29 -0800

Paul, Thank you for being the essence of sanity as usual -- :-)

Paul Eggert writes:
 > On 11/24/2015 07:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 > > is something different about that particular doc
 > > string as opposed to other doc strings which document symbol values?
 > Yes, that particular doc string is talking about quoting, so it's 
 > reasonable for the doc string to go into greater lengths and to say when 
 > it's quoting symbols as opposed to strings, to help avoid the kind of 
 > confusion that started this thread. Doc strings that talk about other 
 > issues don't need to be so careful.

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