Re: quotation characters in the Octave sources

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 16:01:41 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Recently I've noticed the use of various characters for quotation marks in
> the Octave sources, including ASCII apostrophe, grave accent, acute accent,
> and Unicode left/right single quotation marks.  I'd like to come up with a
> uniform guideline for these characters, fix the sources, and try to stick
> with it in the future.

I assume you mean quotation marks used in strings that are presented to
the user? Or do you mean something else?

I agree with consistency, and I tend to prefer the look of double
quotes, for example in this error message:

    >> exist ("x", "foo")
    error: exist: unrecognized type argument "foo"

rather than single quotes, for example in this error message:

    >> sum (10, "foo")
    error: sum: unrecognized type argument 'foo'

But either way, yes to consistency.

-- 
mike

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