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Re: [ID 20000902.012] backticks as smart quotes

From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
September 2, 2000 17:35
Subject:
Re: [ID 20000902.012] backticks as smart quotes
Message ID:
16781.967941114@chthon
>Alternatively, one could argue that '<<', '{{', '<<<', '[[[', '((((',
>etc, become single token delimiters, matching '>>', '}}', '>>>', ']]]',
>'))))', etc. ;-)

The repeated angle brackets (plus abutting whitespace) *do* work
that way for pod directives.

--tom



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