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backquotes in reg*.c
From:
Peter Scott
Date:
April 17, 2000 14:44
Subject:
backquotes in reg*.c
Message ID:
4.2.2.20000417143608.00a3af00@mail.psdt.com
Maybe it's just me, but with the fonts I use (some version of courier), the
backquotes in the output from the regex debugger just look weird:
% perl -Mre=debug -e "foo =~ /bar/"
compiling RE `bar'
size 4 first at 1
1: EXACT <bar>(4)
4: END(0)
anchored `bar' at 0 (checking anchored isall) minlen 3
'cos the normal single quotes are vertical whereas the backquotes are thin,
elevated lines like grave accents.
Incredibly picky point perhaps, but if the majority have the same
experience, perhaps the laudable quote-pairing exercise isn't worth it?
A patch would consist very nearly of s/`/'/g in reg*.c (one exception AFAICT).
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies