[Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone

[Lapo Luchini]

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> That's because we're used to the more widespread plain double quotes
> ("").  But the cool guys say different.  For example, check [1].
> (BTW this guy says that these quotes should be used in french as well.)
> 
> The Debian spanish translation group agrees with me [2], so the «» quotes
> are used pervasively there.  I do that as well in Postgres, after
> extensive investigation on the matter because my escepticism mirrored
> yours.

Don't know for spanish or french, but in italian the «» seems to be more
specific to quote "a text" or a piece of speech, while '' is more
correct to quote "a single word or sentence".

In computer science speech I'd say that:
« = push context, create a wholly new context
» = pop context
'x' = take "x" from a different context and talk about it here

In this regard, '' seems more correct to quote a file name to me...
(in italian!!! I don't know about spanish or french, it may be
completely different of course!!).
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